The conviction that racial differences account for behaviours and values in the real world, although erroneous, is strongly held by some. Singling out the racism of extremists as being exceptional risks obscuring the authorising environment in which they operate.
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The Nationhood Power: a senior public servant’s radical and disturbing view on Executive government in Australia
We should pay close attention when Michael Pezzullo connects together a dubious ‘social contract’, some muddled history, superficial legal references, and an almost mystical connection between the Executive and the ‘common good’ with some as yet poorly understood ‘nationhood power.’
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According to Mike Pezzullo, Australians are like ‘comfortable hobbits’ – blissfully unaware of the grave dangers that exist beyond their borders and ill-prepared for the ‘emerging … “dark universe”’ of globalised ‘terror, crime, and indeed evil’. Pezzullo’s proposed response is radical and revolutionary and alarming.
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