After going through six prime ministers in the last ten years, the not-so United Kingdom is likely to soon notch up its seventh.

At the time of publication, the final numbers from South Australia's state election aren't yet finalised, which hasn't stopped various people from claiming they've made history, and making sweeping predictions for the political future of the nation.

Last week, Australian senator Pauline Hanson stood up in President Trump's gold-encrusted palace in Florida and said it was wonderful to be in America with a 're-energised, strong and patriotic leader who has the best interests of his people at heart', before attacking her own country's immigration, climate and native title policies.

At a time when climate change poses the greatest threat to our world as we know it, it is the politics of immigration – specifically refugee resettlement – that is rocking democracies around the globe.