LNP needs the attention off them & Murdoch get’s to sell more papers a win win for both.

We could also point here to Margaret Thatcher’s very wise policy on terrorism – that if you really wish to protect citizens, you do so by discouraging media coverage of it. “Media coverage is the oxygen of terrorism”, observed Thatcher. If politicians act irresponsibly and feed media with national security fears, they can actually incite race hate, violence and extreme acts. Therefore, the only time a government would play this card is when it is itself under threat and Tony Abbott is feeling just that.

 The government will today unveil national security legislative changes – first revealed by the Daily Telegraph –  at the beginning of July. It was response to the recent phenomenon of two Australian jihadists fighting abroad. Mr Brandis has named the domestic threat to national security the most serious “in decades” and requiring a strengthening of National Security “to bring the Islamic community on side”

The result has been the creation of  an intended division in the Australian community and a nasty shift in political culture set to rival the depravity of the asylum seeker situation. Abbott’s PR team even foreshadowed that the revamp of counter-terrorism measures would emulate the techniques used in Operation Sovereign Borders. The creation of ‘Team Australia’ is made possible by defining some Australian citizens as aliens that are either real or imagined threats to some idealised Australian way of life. A life that Andrew Bolt keeps referring to being constantly at threat by incompatible cultures.

It  is projected beyond the current headlines to be one we must face for 100 years. The Australian has followed this up today with ‘exclusive images’ of the severed heads those from back in July being held up by the son of one of the jihadists, followed by comments from Abbott on the barbarism of the image.

The great irony of last week’s events is that Abbott actually does have a legitimate ‘moral panic’ card he can play to the electorate that would do a much better job than terrorism in generating something for the voters to really think about but can’t use it. Climate Change could have easily been his new threat but he burnt that bridge long ago. So it’s the Labour voting Islamic community that’s to bear the brunt.

A loss for the targeted minority