![]() ![]() We have simultaneously rejected Indigenous rights, rejected multiculturalism, and embraced assimilation in a way that allows racism to be framed as only a problem when someone complains about it and not when someone enacts it. We are separated across racial lines with racist dog whistling from media and politics, and more overt racism from everyday white supremacists. We are separated across state lines, a fact which has never been clearer than when watching our Prime Minister first attack Victorians and then try to steal their achievement as his own. It has tried to create the impossible, or at least the grossly contradictory and hypocritical, by aggressively separating and dividing people across every imaginable line while simultaneously appealing to an idealised sense of ‘we’ whenever it is convenient or expedient. This is not who we are.Īnd as the Chief of the Defence Force said this morning: "We are all diminished by it." Īustralia has been trying very hard for a very long time to have its cake and eat it too when it comes to the idea of ‘we’. I know Australians will be distressed by this report. After news of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan made headlines, it was only a matter of time before a politician uttered the words “This is not who we are”
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