Australians have had a gutful. Across this wide brown land the waves of anger generate their own source of energy as we raise the one-fingered salute to the government, corporate elites and, increasingly, each other.

I get it. I’ve had it up to here with climate backsliding. I’m appalled at the genocide in Gaza. I’m outraged that one man’s stupidity is dragging the world into recession. I’ve nothing but contempt for the tech-Bros selling their AI snake-oil, the consultancy firms gaming the system and grifters like Kyle and Karl sucking up all the oxygen.

Most of all I’m angry that One Nation is taking so much space in the political discourse and that my polls are among those charting this rise so that every time I write a column, I have to focus in on Pauline and her populist humbug rather than the pressing issues facing our nation.

But here we are. According to the latest Guardian Essential Report, One Nation is maintaining its meteoric rise in the polls, albeit with a slight flattening. Whether this is the beginning of a deeper decline or merely a plateau to build from remains to be seen.

What we do know is that there are now so many people looking at One Nation that we can get a serious read on what’s driving those who have crossed the Hanson line (29%) and those who have become One Nation curious (23%). Based on our right track/wrong track metric, anger seems to be in the eye of their storm.

Ed Coper, a political strategist has coined a word for this phenomenon. His excellent new book Angertainment lays out the science........

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