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Philosophy

Barnaby’s Choice

Reports today have drawn attention to remarks by Barnaby Joyce comparing immigration flows to livestock management, a framing criticised for both its tone and its implications. Whatever the intent, language of that kind lands heavily in a moment already charged around migration, borders, and identity. It reduces a complex human process to something blunt, and […]

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politics

Barnaby’s Choice

Barnaby Joyce’s sprint into One Nation marks a shift from policy argument to performance theatre. It is not a conversion so much as a wager: that in a crowded media field the shortest message wins. One Nation’s platform thrives on what could be called ideological constipation — gripping a few ideas so tightly they can […]