Without feeling indebted to La Palice, we can argue that everything that happens affects the fabric of the community in which we live and changes its structure more or less slowly. That the "migrant issue" is also on the list is now in the public domain. We therefore continue to talk about Australia which, with regard to the immigration phenomenon and related labor policies, causes hives to many.
The occasion is greedy for making things clear. It would be appropriate, for example, to judge the "Australia model" not on the merits, but in the approach. Limit yourself to saying "It's good or not good for Australia to reject migrants ..." unfortunately ends up proposing yet another sterile dichotomy, good only to reiterate spheres of ideological belonging that no harm and nothing take away. A typically Italian climate halfway between eternal civil war and Leopard, where everything moves so that everything remains the same.
Probably instead the good news of the Australian approach is the strategic thinking that oversees the management of the phenomenon of migrants: the point on which to reflect is the desire to seek a solution (effective or not) with an eye to the future, distracting the look from partisan interests.
Without going too far, the agility of Canberra was all in the synthesis: "Is there an epochal migratory phenomenon on the South-North of the world? Let's face it".
On this basis everything becomes possible, even to allow the entry of 1 million people for a large-scale structured integration project. If there is an articulated planning over time, every choice becomes legitimate because it is inserted in an overall vision, immune from clan logic.
The important thing is the solution of the problem, not the way in which it is sought. If the former is part of the idea of national interest, the latter is implemented by virtue of the executives in office, without generalizing.
That in Australia were the conservatives of Tony Abbott to imprint Sovereign Borders we could have expected it on the basis of the 2013 election campaign, but it was not obvious on an ideological level. Rigid choices on immigration have also been made around the world by progressive administrations. The example of Zapatero in Madrid applies to everyone.
The effectiveness of a normative system is often inversely proportional to its ideological content. It is the pivot around which the difference between politicians and politicians revolves: the ones reel over the short; others think with the long-term perspective.
On this, Australia is a lesson for all, Italy in the first place. It has done nothing but lay bare its own mission, thinking of itself as a nation in the future. Perhaps because he is aware of the weight and consequences of the migratory flows on which it has developed itself, he has thought about tomorrow. Whatever the way, the important thing is that he imagined one. No example can be better to define a "strategic thinking".
Once the existence of a national interest has been established and the will to pursue it, we can enter into the merits of a project, the debate is open.
Sovereign Borders is it the right solution or is it the result of a collective Alzheimer's that prevents Australians from remembering their origins?
Australians know how much immigration affects anthropological and cultural systems. They know how good a civilization needs new blood to grow and sprout again. They know even better how fragile it is to grow in balance. How difficult it is to guarantee a harmonious evolution to a complex community. Keep a watch on the clock that dictates its timing, perhaps it is not entirely wrong. Surely he is more conscious than to leave him on the wrist of an incapable or bad faith policy. For this or that, to the Canberra politicians the military seemed more trustworthy than talk.
History basically needs its times, possibly without artificial accelerators. Of pastrocchi, mischief, "magnesia" and various masochisms, perhaps Australians do not feel an urgent need.
Giampiero Venturi
(photo: Australian Customs and Border Protection Service)
