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Written by RaymondPierreL3 on 2025-01-26 at 04:19

I couldn’t say it better than Paul Daley:

“The modern Australian state began as a colonial outpost built on a genocidal landgrab. It remains at once weirdly lackadaisical and resentful (in a kind of sun-kissed “if it ain’t broke …” defensive way) about proposed constitutional change to usher in either a republic or, first things first, perhaps, to acknowledge 60,000-plus years of Indigenous civilisation in the founding document of the settler state.

We cling, limpet-like, to the archaic vestiges of a distant dysfunctional hereditary monarchy – emotionally and psychologically lashed to that small island in Europe. Today is a lot about that. But we are also geopolitically and militarily hocked to Washington no matter what would-be dictator runs the place.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/26/today-could-be-a-day-for-soul-searching-instead-we-cling-to-a-distant-monarchy-in-denial-of-our-racist-past?

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