Alfred Deakin will not be Australia’s dangerous daddy, and making an attempt to separate Australian historical past from ethnonationalist imperatives is ludicrous.
Wow, we knew the referendum interval was going to get nasty, however we didn’t maybe realise it was going to get so silly, so shortly. The weekend had a double whammy, beginning with the surprising — surprising, I let you know — information that Alfred Deakin, one of many nation’s founders was, gasp, a “white” ethnonationalist and racial Social Darwinian. This was adopted sizzling on the heels by the surprising — surprising, I let you know — revelation that William Walkley, for whom our overblown, self-indulgent journalism awards have been named, was a White Australia bloke in 1961.
The Walkleys don’t matter a lot to most Australians, however the piece, by SMH/Age tradition information editor Osman Faruqi, served to cloud a really efficient boycott marketing campaign in opposition to a renewed award. A protest in opposition to sponsorship by fossil gasoline firm Ampol (which Walkley based) turning right into a tradition battle — excellent stuff. The Alfred Deakin piece was stranger and extra indicative of the place we look like at, because the Sure marketing campaign for the Voice to Parliament flounders within the doings of the particular politics and begins taking over imprecise speak of future and tragedy, progressive grandees already having a defeat on their thoughts.
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