Political philosophy and Australian far-right media: A critical discourse analysis of The Unshackled and XYZ

A 21st-century growth in prevalence of extreme right-wing nationalism and social conservatism Australia, Europe, America, certain respects belies the positive impacts online, new, alternative forms global media. Cross-national ‘far-right activism’ are unconfined to their host nations; individuals organisations campaign on basis ethno-cultural separatism, while capitalising internet-based affordances for communication ideological cross-fertilisation. Right-wing revolutionary ideas disseminated this media, end, embody politico-cultural aims that can only be understood with attention philosophical underpinnings. Drawing a dataset articles from pseudo-news websites, XYZ The Unshackled, paper investigates representation different rightist political traditions contemporary Australia-based far-right critical discourse content analysis reveal TU’s engagement various traditions, Nietzsche Conservative Revolution, European New Right neo-Nazism.