Looking for Australia Day Goal Posts.
December 6th, 2008
© Warren Fahey
It is difficult to believe we celebrated Australia’s bicentenary twenty years ago. So many things have changed and so many things we had hoped would change have not.
Change is something we appear to take for granted as we brutishly dismiss our heritage. More historic buildings tumble, ratbag politicians come and go, important aspects of our social life continue to go unrecorded, our language bends to the demands of usually unacceptable cultural imports and our tall poppies wilt as we gleefully cut them down. Sadly we appear not to learn from history, nature, family experience or even our mistakes. Australia Day, this far down the wallaby track, provides a good opportunity for all of us to review, revise and, most importantly, to get this century’s goal posts in sight.
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