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” Racism is what we think of ourselves, and others ” ?
Fairfax media has maintained an ongoing commentary on racism and related phobia practices prevalent in Australian society. A recent article by the Foreign Editor claimed that " racism is what we think of ourselves and others", accompanying a racist attribution to Sonia Kruger. The use in this context demeans the crusades of anti-racism luninaries such as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who took on authentic racism- segrega...
Election 2016 – A new political order
If couutries get the politicians they deserve, then Australia is no longer the " Lucky Country", with the electorate declaring " a plague on both your houses." The Coalition roll out of policies and spending was a litany of disaster - against a deteriorating society backdrop of the unrepresented and underprivileged, with "street" people proliferating, homelessness a way of life, the mentally ill abandoned, rising social tensions ...
Equal but different – a society at ease with itself
Arriving as a potential whingeing Pom 10 years ago , my expectations were set against a backdrop of irreverent, satirical, even offensive Australiana, comprising Barry Humphries, Richard Neville of OZ fame, Germaine Greer and Ciive James. I was reassured in the first week at a Melbourne hotel by the sight of mining prospectors, grown men, with flapping hats, sandy boots and an enviable propensity to consume alcohol Regrettably, my ...
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.