Instead of new ideas and new visions we are made wallow in threadbare absurdities and convenient fictions: Australia Day, the world’s most liveable cities, secure borders. It will honour those Australians who so tragically lost their lives on the western front in world war one and, more generally, the 62,000 Australians who died in world war one. Indigenous Australia wasn’t even recorded as a general category. The shame will outlive us all | Richard Flanagan Read moreEven if you have no respect for Indigenous Australia, you should care for the future of your country. And now, more than ever, we need ways of bringing us together, not, as, for example, Australia Day presently does, dividing us.

Source: The Guardian April 18, 2018 07:04 UTC