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Cowards of Oz

Few care about their subjection to the Queen. But they’re jumpy about the Asiatic hordes.

In November, Australians will vote to keep the Queen as head of state, or become a republic. According to a poll last week, most appear not to give a damn. “There isn’t enough energy in the republican issue,” said the premier of Queensland, with an eloquence long associated with his office, “to change a light bulb.” Perhaps my compatriots smell a dead marsupial. A president of the republic is unlikely to be elected, as most people want, but appointed by the same political elite whose public standing is a fraction higher than that of Serbia.

In any case, the Australian establishment has always been happy with a veiled colonial status. The declaration of a federation in 1901, far from being a bold act of independence, was a desperate cry to Mother England to stay on and defend her most distant colony from the “Asiatic hordes” who, as everybody knew, were about to fall down on them as if by the force of gravity.

— source johnpilger.com | john pilger | 27 Jul 1999

Nullius in verba


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