With the election finally behind us, let’s remember when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called a double dissolution in the hopes of ridding the Senate of obstructive minor parties and single issue independents. Has this strategy backfired? Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party and former shock-jock Derryn Hinch join an already eccentric cast in the Senate. On this episode of Sociologic we want to understand who is at this bar, and what has influenced Australians to vote them there. To help us unpack it we will be joined by Matt Wade, senior columnist from the Sydney Morning Herald.

Recorded: July 28.