Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) identifies symbolic and metaphorical contexts for collective understandings, influencing how policy is generated. Historical institutionalism addresses how the state apparatus historically dealt with a policy area.
This paper draws from NPF and historical institutionalism when analyzing news articles, social media content and political speeches from One Nation Pauline Hanson, coding them through NVivo software through purposive sampling. The paper discusses One Nation’s historic views on migration and how it has shaped collective understandings towards migration in Australia, shaping One Nation’s policy perspectives, including broader perspectives in Australian policy and the securitization of migrant’s post 9/11. Firstly, the paper explores One Nation’s monoculture policy and its main aims. Secondly, the paper interrogates whether monoculture policy could reinforce policy perspectives addressing migration as a security issue. The paper explores the main impacts that One Nation’s monoculture policy might have on migrants’ sense of inclusion and exclusion, societal diversity and minority groups in Australia.
