Opinion Our leaders are talking small, but they still need to think big
The Morrison government will no doubt be hoping the collective buzz generated from booting out the world’s No. 1 tennis player lasts until Australia Day. If not, they’ll have to manufacture another means of funnelling nationalist sentiment because around January 26 we’ve come to expect such things, even if subconsciously, like we do with flies in summer.
The year before – 2020 – is one Scott Morrison would want to forget, coming in the aftermath of the fires and the perception he’d abandoned the country in a time of crisis. “I’m a prime minister for standards,” Morrison explained. So let’s agree 2019 was about the small picture; shoes and socks. Very small if you compare it with Australia Day in 2006, when then prime minister John Howard called for a “root-and-branch renewal of the teaching of Australian history”. A big theme.
Take that, and I don’t care if the Immigration Minister has “God-like” powers, for in Australia brutality has a proudly egalitarian character wherein all “illegals”, even those who own prestige properties from Soho to Monte Carlo, enjoy the hospitality of the $109-a-night Park Hotel before they’re emphatically evicted from the homeland. And they’re the lucky ones.This exhilarating illusion of agency might indeed sustain us for another week. Except; I’m already sensing deflation.
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