Paulina Olszanka is an Australian journalist covering Poland for The Times and The Sunday Times. Paulina has covered the refugee crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border and reported extensively on the fallout from the war in Ukraine. She is also interested in how people, especially those disenfranchised, understand the world that they live in, and how their grassroots activity can affect political change. She is currently writing a book on the changing metaphysics of Polish politics.