Abstract
A new monarch succeeded the day I sat down to write this review about the idea of Australia. Prime Minister Albanese, in a blessedly unpoliticised speech about Elizabeth II’s death, was direct in announcing that he and the governor-general would be heading to London, ‘where we will meet the king’.
Ours is an independent nation that was federated under a British imperial monarch in 1901; a European nation in Southeast Asia; a nation of migrants from many lands, dominated by the institutions and concerns of the Anglosphere; oh, and the land where the oldest continuous cultures persist after 60,000 years. It can be a bit confusing.
Ours is an independent nation that was federated under a British imperial monarch in 1901; a European nation in Southeast Asia; a nation of migrants from many lands, dominated by the institutions and concerns of the Anglosphere; oh, and the land where the oldest continuous cultures persist after 60,000 years. It can be a bit confusing.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 34-35 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| No. | 447 |
| Specialist publication | Australian Book Review |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2022 |
Keywords
- Society
- Cultural Studies
- Julianne Schultz
- Australian studies
- Robert Phiddian