A new poll published in the Australian Financial Review has Pauline Hanson's One Nation ahead of Labor and the Coalition on primary vote, and Mark Kenny says political parties can't agree on how to respond. Meanwhile the government is bogged down in budget backlash. Millions of Syrians forced to flee the brutal Assad regime are now returning home, but with much of Syria destroyed what’s left to return to? Plus insect life on Lord Howe Island has significantly increased since the eradication of invasive rodents in 2019. Guests:Prof. Mark Kenny, Director of the Australian Studies Institute, host of Democracy Sausage podcastKholoud Helmi, Syrian journalist and Managing Director of Enab Baladi news publications’s Daraya edition Maxim Adams, PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, co-lead in a new study with the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, published in Biological Invasions