Charlse Newman
@charlse.bsky.social
Official War Artist @The Possum Party. Bastard and Ultrademocrat. Ngalany kalyakool baaminy.
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Quoting the late Lord Herman Ouseley, Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, Colven says: “Social cohesion must encompass the basic principles of justice, fair treatment, equality of opportunity, equal participation and self-determination[...]" /3
October 14, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Quoting the late Lord Herman Ouseley, Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, Colven says: “Social cohesion must encompass the basic principles of justice, fair treatment, equality of opportunity, equal participation and self-determination[...]" /3
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Quoting the Scanlon Foundation, Colvin defines social cohesion as: "The willingness of members of our society with each other in order to survive and prosper." He also offers a few clear way to achieve social cohesion and are firmly grounds these in concerns about terrorism and white nationalism. /2
October 14, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Quoting the Scanlon Foundation, Colvin defines social cohesion as: "The willingness of members of our society with each other in order to survive and prosper." He also offers a few clear way to achieve social cohesion and are firmly grounds these in concerns about terrorism and white nationalism. /2
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And for reference, here's the lecture Colvin gave in 2016 (I said 2017 in the previous post, that was an error). Colvin frames effective law enforcement as the "absence of crime" so police don't actually have to turn up for the rules to be followed. He also offers a definition of social cohesion /1
Commissioner Andrew Colvin - Lecture - Social Cohesion - A Shared Responsibility
YouTube video by Australian Intercultural Society
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2024 at 6:24 AM
And for reference, here's the lecture Colvin gave in 2016 (I said 2017 in the previous post, that was an error). Colvin frames effective law enforcement as the "absence of crime" so police don't actually have to turn up for the rules to be followed. He also offers a definition of social cohesion /1
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I have to get some things done, so I'm skipping ahead a bunch and doing a few different searches for anything of interest -- such as this Australian Federal Police magazine write up on social cohesion from 2017 - might be of interest @caravonicapat.bsky.social.
October 14, 2024 at 6:20 AM
I have to get some things done, so I'm skipping ahead a bunch and doing a few different searches for anything of interest -- such as this Australian Federal Police magazine write up on social cohesion from 2017 - might be of interest @caravonicapat.bsky.social.
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In the early 00s, you've got "social cohesion" as rhetorical device, similar, again to "The Economy". It's used as something like, "The Kumbaya Measure", to ask: "Do we have people importing guns from Colonel Gaddafi and race riots ever other Tuesday?"
October 14, 2024 at 6:09 AM
In the early 00s, you've got "social cohesion" as rhetorical device, similar, again to "The Economy". It's used as something like, "The Kumbaya Measure", to ask: "Do we have people importing guns from Colonel Gaddafi and race riots ever other Tuesday?"
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The same year you've got feminist legal scholars taking direct aim at the idea of "social cohesion" as "the ideological goal of the law" and something to be challenged. At this point you've got all these different people drawing battlelines around this idea but still no clear meaning.
October 14, 2024 at 5:53 AM
The same year you've got feminist legal scholars taking direct aim at the idea of "social cohesion" as "the ideological goal of the law" and something to be challenged. At this point you've got all these different people drawing battlelines around this idea but still no clear meaning.
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In 1998, you get legal philosophers -- this time of the "natural law" variety, which is mixed up with God and religion -- using "social cohesion" as if it was an actual thing that can be measured or interacted with, like "The Economy". This is new as, before, it was just this abstract output of law.
October 14, 2024 at 5:47 AM
In 1998, you get legal philosophers -- this time of the "natural law" variety, which is mixed up with God and religion -- using "social cohesion" as if it was an actual thing that can be measured or interacted with, like "The Economy". This is new as, before, it was just this abstract output of law.
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Smack bang in the middle of the 90s, there's a bunch of uses of "social cohesion" -- ironically, not in a cohesive way -- from articles contributed by members of the Samuel Griffith Society, the Australian equivalent to The Federalist Society. These also refer to "national cohesion".
October 14, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Smack bang in the middle of the 90s, there's a bunch of uses of "social cohesion" -- ironically, not in a cohesive way -- from articles contributed by members of the Samuel Griffith Society, the Australian equivalent to The Federalist Society. These also refer to "national cohesion".
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Here is a critical legal scholar in 1986 confirming the observation that "social cohesion" has been incorporated into AU law enforcement logic by describing police in a way that would get him relentlessly trolled by "thin blue line" types on social media today.
October 14, 2024 at 5:32 AM
Here is a critical legal scholar in 1986 confirming the observation that "social cohesion" has been incorporated into AU law enforcement logic by describing police in a way that would get him relentlessly trolled by "thin blue line" types on social media today.
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The other place where this phrasing crops up is in articles by crime prevention types -- these guys in particular from the late seventies into the 1980s. So you get the use of "social cohesion" by the philosophy types asking "what's the point of laws" and cops asking "how do we keep order".
October 14, 2024 at 5:28 AM
The other place where this phrasing crops up is in articles by crime prevention types -- these guys in particular from the late seventies into the 1980s. So you get the use of "social cohesion" by the philosophy types asking "what's the point of laws" and cops asking "how do we keep order".
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This is interesting -- from 1983, this is the first instance I've seen where "social cohesion" is tied to broader assimilationist ideas. I don't know anything about the author or the context, but the author appears to compare Indigenous demands for self-determination to, well, the Nazis.
October 14, 2024 at 5:22 AM
This is interesting -- from 1983, this is the first instance I've seen where "social cohesion" is tied to broader assimilationist ideas. I don't know anything about the author or the context, but the author appears to compare Indigenous demands for self-determination to, well, the Nazis.
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Skip to the seventies, and "social cohesion" crops up more often - here it is in what appears to be a work of critical legal theory where it's used here to refer to what happens with the operation of the law. The author seems to be trying to challenge lawyers and get them to work towards justice.
October 14, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Skip to the seventies, and "social cohesion" crops up more often - here it is in what appears to be a work of critical legal theory where it's used here to refer to what happens with the operation of the law. The author seems to be trying to challenge lawyers and get them to work towards justice.
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I suspect this last one is important context for Australia's current thing with "social cohesion". Devlin supported the decriminalisation of homosexuality, saying that public disgust was not sufficient to justify it being "eradicated", but he is widely thought to have lost that philosophical fight.
October 14, 2024 at 4:46 AM
I suspect this last one is important context for Australia's current thing with "social cohesion". Devlin supported the decriminalisation of homosexuality, saying that public disgust was not sufficient to justify it being "eradicated", but he is widely thought to have lost that philosophical fight.
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"Social cohesion" crops up in this write up of the debate over the role of morality in the law and specifically the position taken by British judge Lord Devlin who said morals should shape law. Lord Devlin, Wikipedia reports, sexually abused his daughter from the age of 7 well into her teens.
October 14, 2024 at 4:43 AM
"Social cohesion" crops up in this write up of the debate over the role of morality in the law and specifically the position taken by British judge Lord Devlin who said morals should shape law. Lord Devlin, Wikipedia reports, sexually abused his daughter from the age of 7 well into her teens.
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Here's another reference in buried in a review of a book of essays, published in the Sydney Law Review in 1959. It spends a bit of time on an essay about British pluralism and the jurisprudential question: what keep societies together?
October 14, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Here's another reference in buried in a review of a book of essays, published in the Sydney Law Review in 1959. It spends a bit of time on an essay about British pluralism and the jurisprudential question: what keep societies together?
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There's also a direct reference to "social cohesion" as inherent to the idea that the use of force is necessary to keep a society bound together in this international law article published in 1958 titled: "Aggression and World Order: A Critique of United Nations Theories of Aggression".
October 14, 2024 at 4:00 AM
There's also a direct reference to "social cohesion" as inherent to the idea that the use of force is necessary to keep a society bound together in this international law article published in 1958 titled: "Aggression and World Order: A Critique of United Nations Theories of Aggression".
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The first remotely coherent use of "social cohesion" available through the free Austlii legal database, appears in this book review from the 1958 Sydney Law Review in the context of discussion on the death penalty and when the state has the right to use force to enact a punishment.
October 14, 2024 at 3:58 AM
The first remotely coherent use of "social cohesion" available through the free Austlii legal database, appears in this book review from the 1958 Sydney Law Review in the context of discussion on the death penalty and when the state has the right to use force to enact a punishment.
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These are also very general. The idea of "cohesion" gets picked up in pamphlets around the time of Australian Federation for obvious reasons. It is sometimes used in reference to military units and in the 50s starts being used in the context of international relations between states.
October 14, 2024 at 3:48 AM
These are also very general. The idea of "cohesion" gets picked up in pamphlets around the time of Australian Federation for obvious reasons. It is sometimes used in reference to military units and in the 50s starts being used in the context of international relations between states.
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I'm shirking my responsibilities and went down a rabbit hole trying to find early uses "social cohesion". The results don't look... great, but are misleading. Early on the phrase appears to only be used in the context of crime and to refer to relations between polities in the British empire.
October 14, 2024 at 3:41 AM
I'm shirking my responsibilities and went down a rabbit hole trying to find early uses "social cohesion". The results don't look... great, but are misleading. Early on the phrase appears to only be used in the context of crime and to refer to relations between polities in the British empire.
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I'll leave it to readers to make a call about the organisation, its founder and the merits of its underlying ideology. All I say is that it does seem well-intentioned, but heavily focussed on the idea migrants will "bring problems". You can see why a government shy of confrontation may be into it.
October 14, 2024 at 6:40 AM
I'll leave it to readers to make a call about the organisation, its founder and the merits of its underlying ideology. All I say is that it does seem well-intentioned, but heavily focussed on the idea migrants will "bring problems". You can see why a government shy of confrontation may be into it.
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[...]from all people of diverse backgrounds in these societies if we’re not to have social chaos, breakdown and even disorder.”
Much of his talk appears to draw on work from the Scanlon Foundation established in 2001, which also produces the "Mapping Social Cohesion Report".
Much of his talk appears to draw on work from the Scanlon Foundation established in 2001, which also produces the "Mapping Social Cohesion Report".
October 14, 2024 at 6:35 AM
[...]from all people of diverse backgrounds in these societies if we’re not to have social chaos, breakdown and even disorder.”
Much of his talk appears to draw on work from the Scanlon Foundation established in 2001, which also produces the "Mapping Social Cohesion Report".
Much of his talk appears to draw on work from the Scanlon Foundation established in 2001, which also produces the "Mapping Social Cohesion Report".
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Early on I did a thread looking at how social cohesion has been used in Australia over 100 years. It's probably worth noting the idea was recently adopted by police as a Countering Violent Extremism framework and promoted by the foundation of a billionaire who was worried about migrants fitting in.
[...]from all people of diverse backgrounds in these societies if we’re not to have social chaos, breakdown and even disorder.”
Much of his talk appears to draw on work from the Scanlon Foundation established in 2001, which also produces the "Mapping Social Cohesion Report".
Much of his talk appears to draw on work from the Scanlon Foundation established in 2001, which also produces the "Mapping Social Cohesion Report".
February 5, 2026 at 6:34 AM
Early on I did a thread looking at how social cohesion has been used in Australia over 100 years. It's probably worth noting the idea was recently adopted by police as a Countering Violent Extremism framework and promoted by the foundation of a billionaire who was worried about migrants fitting in.
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Same applies to the Sydney Biennale
The Newcastle Writers Festival organisers can see the rake. They understand how a rake on the ground works. They know what happens when you tread on the rake. They’ve seen the swish-thwack of a trodden rake on other festivals. Can they resist rake-stepping?
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Same applies to the Sydney Biennale
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I'll let Rob say it cos I've said nuff bout how I feel bout it
We do know who he is and so will you on the 17th.
We do know who he is and so will you on the 17th.
Terrorism charges have been laid against the as yet unnamed offender in Perth.
In my opinion this only happened due to the outrage from all sections of the community. To the non-Aboriginal people who have been complaining and helping keep this alive, thank you. It’s your voices that mattered.
In my opinion this only happened due to the outrage from all sections of the community. To the non-Aboriginal people who have been complaining and helping keep this alive, thank you. It’s your voices that mattered.
February 5, 2026 at 7:27 AM
I'll let Rob say it cos I've said nuff bout how I feel bout it
We do know who he is and so will you on the 17th.
We do know who he is and so will you on the 17th.
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In memory of:
Mariam Ahmed Abdel Karim Al-Laqta / مريم أحمد عبد الكريم اللقطه
Age: 7
We will not forget you.
Mariam Ahmed Abdel Karim Al-Laqta / مريم أحمد عبد الكريم اللقطه
Age: 7
We will not forget you.
February 5, 2026 at 7:00 AM
In memory of:
Mariam Ahmed Abdel Karim Al-Laqta / مريم أحمد عبد الكريم اللقطه
Age: 7
We will not forget you.
Mariam Ahmed Abdel Karim Al-Laqta / مريم أحمد عبد الكريم اللقطه
Age: 7
We will not forget you.