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The 2022 federal election, and arguably every Australian political contest since 2014, has been fuelled online by references to The Simpsons. Why?

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Memes and popular culture have become central to our understanding of contemporary politics. Recent fan scholarship has shown how popular culture encourages audiences into discussion, participation, creativity, intervention, and evaluation in politics. In this article, we build on existing scholarship analysing political meme creation and distribution, which to date has primarily focused primarily on American politics. Using a case study of the Facebook group The Simpsons Against the Liberals (the conservative ruling party in Australia), we examine how the anti-fannish behaviors of appropriati...

Pollins says the next episode in his “chequered history” with Laming came in 2016 when the MP attended the dying minutes of the AGM of the Wellington Point cricket club, of which Pollins was a member for 10 years. Laming boasted that he would widen a local road and then suggested that the club’s young players may be ice users, which prompted outrage. “We weren’t aware of any players on ice,” Pollins says. “It was such a generalised statement. Yes, ice is a very bad thing – but there are ways and means of saying something. This was very clumsy. We just all said ‘what an absol...