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Aussie Life

Aussie Life & Language

7 November 2020

9:00 AM

7 November 2020

9:00 AM

Tony Letford

In a recent article in the Weekend Australian, Alison Broinowski refers to ‘America’s unjustified atom bombing of Japan’ (‘Nothing Great in US decline’). It is the sort of breathtakingly dismissive reference to one of the most important historical events of the last century that one might have expected from someone in the Black Lives Matter movement rather than a distinguished academic, diplomat and writer.

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