When Australians in the middle of this century look back on us, they will be astonished that we supported a national day that insulted the original inhabitants of the continent, we refused even to mention them in our constitution, we stuck a British flag in the corner of our flag, and we had a foreigner as our head of state.
Australia Day will vanish, along with the flag. Paul Rovere
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Craig Emerson is managing director of Emerson Economics. He is a distinguished fellow at the ANU, director of the Australian APEC Study Centre at RMIT and adjunct professor at Victoria University’s College of Business.
