In Australia, as in most other affluent western countries, nationalism is no longer fashionable. Quite the opposite actually – we’ve become accustomed to weird kind of subtle self-loathing, a permanent collective mood that seems to recognise that despite all the successes of the Australian state we’re still a bunch of irredeemably oppressive colonialists who deserve to feel bad all the time.
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