There is a reason Australians no longer trust the political language surrounding extremism.

They know when they are being managed.

Jewish Australians have faced a surge in intimidation, harassment, threats, chants glorifying terrorism, vandalism, and open displays of hatred that most Australians believed belonged in another century, not modern Sydney.

And yet Anthony Albanese still speaks as though the country’s greatest threat is “division” rather than the ideology fuelling it.

That is the defining weakness of this government: it treats clarity as dangerous and euphemism as leadership.

When Australians watched antisemitic mobs fill the streets after October 7, many expected moral certainty from their Prime Minister. Instead they received carefully filtered language, bureaucratic caution, and endless appeals for “social cohesion.”

But social cohesion does not survive when governments refuse to identify what is tearing it........

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