Letter
Social coersion
The term 'social cohesion' is a misnomer. It has been written the USA believes in human rights but limits who it recognises as human. In the same way social cohesion has become a definition to recognise who is Australian. If you agree with the government, you are Australian (with various qualifiers and hierarchy).
Cohesion is an attempt to force conformity or to deny identity. In effect the political mob are asking the right to vote for who they represent. It is an admission of failure of government, of media, of the economic structures and a denial of responsibilities. Australia’s economy is now so lacking in complexity that it resembles a typical colonial extraction economy. The few who benefit are blind to the wider struggles and suffering of the population.
Whether on Indigenous rights, institutional racism, demanding support for genocide or deliberate and consistent economic policies that have for years encouraged the wealth, health and education divides to grow. Are you Australian, human? Is egalitarian Australia a myth?
— M Bulluss from UnAustralian