Australian political reporting works with the unspoken assumption that Canberra operates in a vacuum, untouched by global trends.
The result? Last week’s over-heated rhetoric on migration was presented as a serious response to public concerns rather than what it was: a dangerous and divisive injection of the global right’s anti-Muslim rhetoric that has long been powering its hate machine.
Just returned from a meeting in Israel with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security advisers and off the back of a meeting with his own “national security” team, Peter Dutton catapulted the global right’s campaign against Muslim migrants into the centre of the Canberra discourse with his call to
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