The Coalition’s recent turn on immigration should not be read only as a policy announcement. It is better understood as a communication event in which a party under pressure has reached for one of the oldest political instruments available: the conversion of broad social anxiety into a visible outsider. In its own language, the Coalition’s […]
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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