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 […]
A basic rule of public communication is that attention is not a side effect; it is the medium itself. Attempts to suppress a message therefore carry a predictable risk: suppression becomes the story. In Canberra, police seized posters from the window of a local café and bar following a complaint and temporarily closed the venue […]
Fragmentary politics is the largely unwitting doctrine of manufacturing and sustaining endless political and sociopsychological friction in order to self-validate. It generates adversarialism and conflict, then feeds on the consequences, mistaking turbulence for relevance and agitation for purpose. This is not strategy. It is structural incompetence: the conversion of social damage into political leverage, and […]
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