Advance Australia has issued a message to loyal supporters warning that national leaders hate Australia Day in their heart of hearts and want it to die a silent death .
This debate may be as crucial as the referendum debate itself to determining the future of reconciliation and what it means to be Australian in the 21st century. By Joel Hodge
Australia’s 'educated classes', asserts William J Lines in Romancing the Primitive, have lost their faith in the virtues of Western civilisation. Trapped in a zero-sum paradigm, social justice warriors view the past as a 'purely moral drama of villains and victimhood' and have, accordingly, 'idealised Aboriginal life beyond recognition'. We have come a long way from the liberalism of First Fleet observer Watkin Tench