Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock (Image: AAP/Bianca De Marchi)
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock (Image: AAP/Bianca De Marchi)

“Social cohesion” has been a popular concept for many months now, and not just from the government. The mainstream media united to denounce a fictional threat of Muslim sectarianism in the wake of Senator Fatima Payman’s move from Labor to the crossbench. Business leaders have fretted that fraying social cohesion is bad for business. The problem is pro-Palestine Australians, at least according to government sources who denounced Payman and accused pro-Palestine protesters of violence and antisemitism, and their media mouthpieces.

All along, a far bigger threat to social cohesion was right in front of us.