The politics of grievance

March 24, 2026

While the Coalition may be “ building their own irrelevance”, perhaps it is not via its climate-change denial, as this did not deter last weekend around 22 per cent of South Australians voting One Nation first. The fact that SA is a global leader in renewable energy was not on the minds of voters, just ‘the vibe’ of Pauline Hanson’s politics of grievance. She utterly rejects the science of climate change, believing there is insufficient evidence on which to base catastrophic predictions – never mind overwhelming scientific consensus to the contrary.

The 2025 Senate inquiry on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy found that misinformation and disinformation are widespread across Australia, and that this both undermines trust in science and delays effective policy development.

We are indebted to Chas Keys and the Emergency Leaders for Climate Action for their work in warning governments and the public of the dire security threats posed by climate change. They and many other climate action groups around the country keep working to counter the seemingly growing grievance politics which seeks to bring the house down without any plan to build anew.