Maybe Australia’s propensity to beat up on small numbers of helpless refugees has nothing to do with the refugees themselves, but is simply the result of any more significant target for nationalist anger.
Nationalism
I survived Marysville for an orgy of ocker self-love
My emotions, and the way I’ve been talking about them in order to deal with them, have been hijacked by the emotions of “the nation” and its faithful organ, the press, writes Peter Chambers.
Britt Lapthorne and ugly Australian nationalism
We’re not too strong at consistency in Australia, particularly when we’re feeling nationalistic, writes Bernard Keane.
Bahnisch: The return of aspirational nationalism
We haven’t heard anything about aspirational nationalism in this campaign. If you cast your mind back to August, it was John Howard’s new big philosophical idea. Boldly going where no nonsensical phrase had gone before – back to the future, and all that. writes Mark Bahnisch.
