The self-hating narrative of the left in Australia, New Zealand and the Americas is omnipresent. The risible “Welcome to Country” ceremonies (a fiction invented in 1973), the tortuous, right-on insertion of Te Reo Maori (or, at least, the latest iteration thereof) in every media article and government announcement – and, of course, the endless self-flagellation […]

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Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. I grew up in a generational-Labor-voting family. I kept the faith long after the political left had abandoned it. In the last decade...