http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/01/26/shame-day/ This blog belongs to Xander Bennett, writer of words for film, TV and comics Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:25:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/01/26/shame-day/#comment-97 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:34:10 +0000 http://chained.blogsome.com/2006/01/26/shame-day/#comment-97 Right on, man. I saw some grabs from that speech on the news and it left me utterly cold. Narratives of Australian history cannot be separated from the wider story of colonialism and its antecedents. Australian national identity is a total fiction, or rather it's whatever you want it to be, and mostly it's used by those who wish to cynically manipulate mass sentiment. Right on, man. I saw some grabs from that speech on the news and it left me utterly cold. Narratives of Australian history cannot be separated from the wider story of colonialism and its antecedents. Australian national identity is a total fiction, or rather it’s whatever you want it to be, and mostly it’s used by those who wish to cynically manipulate mass sentiment.

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