As neoliberalism shrinks the practical terrain of difference in government between different parliamentary parties in the English-speaking world (so the UK and Australia through privatisation and the decline of labour start to look more like the United States), there's a more neurotic focus on the functions the State can't get rid of … citizenship and visas, border control, the military, intelligence services, etc.
Reckon in Australia it happens because people correctly notice the reason they're better off than what they see on TV is which citizenship they hold. This has been a factor here since Federation, but it's been predominating more and more since the 90s, we're back to interwar levels of fear and loathing almost.
The big battlegrounds right now should be things like labour re-regulation, energy transition and housing affordability. Actually think Labor would walk the next election if they unveiled an optimistic platform, but they won't do much.
