The Australia Day debating season has now finally, mercifully, come to an end for another year.
It is clear the right and left in this country have very different perspectives about how January 26, 1788 – the date a new British colony was established in Sydney – should be commemorated.
What is less well known is that these warring political tribes tend to have a similar ‘black armband view of history’ when it comes to a much more important event: Federation, the date our nation-state formally came into being.
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