{"id":862636,"date":"2026-08-21T01:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862636\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T01:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:12:10","slug":"migration-panic-is-australias-pennywise-dormant-until-time-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862636\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration panic is Australia&#8217;s Pennywise, dormant until time is right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Stephen King\u2019s It, every few years the monster living under the town wakes up and feeds on whatever fear is available, taking the form people are already primed to recognise, while everyone reacts as though they\u2019re seeing it for the first time. The horror isn\u2019t just Pennywise the shape-shifting clown; it\u2019s how everyone keeps forgetting about him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Migration panic is Australia\u2019s Pennywise. The monster\u2019s appearance changes because fear needs fresh makeup, but the ritual of invocation doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Stephen King\u2019s It, every few years the monster living under the town wakes up and feeds on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[155074,432121,64,63,432122,4880,7688,9281,74758,75641,44,14754,122288,10943,297331,2966,84461,64171],"class_list":["post-862636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-angus-taylor","tag-attitudes-towards-migrants","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-big-australia","tag-covid-19","tag-housing","tag-immigration","tag-kevin-rudd","tag-migrants","tag-news","tag-pauline-hanson","tag-pennywise","tag-peter-dutton","tag-punched-in-the-headlines","tag-racism","tag-scott-morrison","tag-tony-abbott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}