Tony Abbott hears nothing from white Australia -- plus more from last night's Tory knees-up (we've got the tapes). Labor reveals its super changes (they're not that super). The US subpoena attacking a web host. Do government film subsidies really add up? And our top-heavy public service. Time for some quiet.
article-article-body“In contemporary Australia [we have] rightly left behind the old cult of forgetfulness about our indigenous heritage. Alas, there is a new version of the great Australian silence — this time about the Western cannon, the literature, the poetry, the music, the history and above all the faith without which our culture and our civilisation is unimaginable.”
— Tony Abbott, Institute of Public Affairs dinner, April 4, 2013
The sounds of silence. If only.
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But … WHAT?!?
Poor old Tony, his mind is errivocably rooted in the past.
please dont spell canon with a double n.m.
[I think the tent embassy has made it’s point, they should move on]
Geez, this bloke has some issue with the concept of time – 200 years versus a couple of thousand