Sunday, 24 January 2016
Australia Day post
This is a powerful speech, and I'm deliberately posting it just prior to Australia Day.
It is far more relevant than having an excuse to get drunk, flying Chinese made flags on your car, and spouting cliches about our great country.
I love my country. I will always resist seeing it shamed.
It has been deeply shamed by the racists who booed Adam Goodes and the shock jocks who egged them on.
As Stan Grant says - we are better than this.
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