View from The Hill: Albanese could learn from Malinauskas’ masterclass in messaging

With social cohesion badly fraying and One Nation s surge reinforcing the threat it is under, politicians desperately need to find the rhetoric to help glue our multiculturalism back together. Obviously it will take much more than words but, as is often said, words matter. So does linking change with continuity, relating today s Australia to the country of yesterday. Also important is making the national symbols and values the instruments of unity, claiming them back from the culture warriors