Kelly’s heroes: can the UAP’s politics of anger derail the Australian election?

The number of people finding resonance with the freedom' message of Clive Palmer's United Australia party cannot be ignored

Julian Fayad describes himself as a regular" guy. The 29-year-old second-generation Australian with a Lebanese background runs a finance business in western Sydney, has a young family and has lived in Parramatta his entire life.

Like many Australians, he had only a passing interest in politics, until the impact of Covid restrictions on his community lit a spark.