The Coalition’s recent turn on immigration should not be read only as a policy announcement. I read it as a communication event built around one of the oldest political instruments available: the conversion of broad social anxiety into a visible outsider. In its own language, the Coalition’s Australian Values Migration Plan promises to strengthen “Australian […]
Identity formation requires antithesis. In the United States, political coherence has long been organised around opposition: liberty against tyranny, democracy against monarchy, capitalism against communism, freedom against control. These oppositions carved boundaries that stabilised national identity, generated purpose, and coordinated collective action. Opposition was not incidental. It was structural. Without it, American identity would have […]
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