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The Australian language is one of the few bonds that still binds together the Australian nation. And, heaven knows, we need it so many other bonds are breaking or fraying at the edges. When state governments behave like sovereign nations in the face of Covid, the bonds of federation start to look decidedly thin and worn. With the ABC continuing its long crusade to only represent Green-Left ideology (and completely ignore the majority that elected the Morrison government) its role of binding the nation together has largely dissolved.
What other bonds are left? Respect for the Anzac tradition? The Left often mocks that. The national anthem and the flag? They want to change them. Respect for the pioneering settlers who carved a modern nation out of a wilderness? Dismissed as racist. Today the Australian language is the rather lonely glue that holds us together as one people.