I’m oversensitive to criticism of Australia by famous authors. Richard Flanagan, elated at winning the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, proceeded to tell British audiences that he was ashamed of being Australian when asked about Tony Abbott’s ‘coal is good for humanity’ statement: ‘Our government seems committed to destroying what we have that’s unique in the world’.
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