Well said
Excerpt from Michael McGirr's open letter to 2006 school leavers:
I hope you don't need a flag of any kind to establish your identity. At any moment, a million Australians are living overseas. Not just visiting, but living. I hope you have a chance to be one of them for a while. I hope the Third World makes a powerful claim on your humanity.
I hope you keep an interest in history, including Australian history. The study of a country's history may be advocated from time to time by people with a nationalistic agenda. Ironically, nothing will defeat that agenda more than the study of history. History involves meeting the people who went before you. People aren't ideas; no person is defined by a flag.
Full article here.
I hope you don't need a flag of any kind to establish your identity. At any moment, a million Australians are living overseas. Not just visiting, but living. I hope you have a chance to be one of them for a while. I hope the Third World makes a powerful claim on your humanity.
I hope you keep an interest in history, including Australian history. The study of a country's history may be advocated from time to time by people with a nationalistic agenda. Ironically, nothing will defeat that agenda more than the study of history. History involves meeting the people who went before you. People aren't ideas; no person is defined by a flag.
Full article here.