The success of Trump has repudiated a politics that demands obedience over exchange, presumes bad faith in its opponents, and has no patience for persuasion.
. This naturally triggered countless sniggers that he would nominate a song whose message – centred on giving land back to Indigenous Australians or at least “paying the rent” – could hardly be more diametrically opposed to his own politics. It’s a song Midnight Oil pointedly played at the Sydney Olympics closing ceremony to embarrass Howard over his refusal to apologise to the Stolen Generations. Those sniggers, I suspect, missed the point.
The point here is not that Australia was a more progressive place in 1987 than in our time. Surveying the ubiquitous acknowledgments of Country, the broadcasters and sporting bodies frequently noting Indigenous place names, the change in any number of social attitudes on race, gender or sex, that would be a difficult argument to make. It is hard to imagine that “paying the rent” had more devotees in 1987 than it does today.
“I think that the internet’s changed everything as we know, and people will react very instantaneously to things, either like or dislike … I mean, they think about it, but it’s also very reactive. Whereas I think with our stuff, we gave people a chance to reflect on it. There’s so much in this for anyone interested in the debate about whether, in the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election, 2024 was the year “woke politics”. That’s too messy a debate, characterised by too many fuzzy terms, for me to enter here in full. But it is clear that the ascendancy of a particular firebrand style of progressive politics has waned, that a repudiation of some sort – even if it ultimately proves modest – has occurred.
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