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Leading article Australia

Aussie values

29 April 2017

9:00 AM

29 April 2017

9:00 AM

We have heard much over the past fortnight, thanks to a new citizenship test and the Anzac commemorations, about Australian values. This is despite the fact that there appears to be some confusion about what those values actually are. Unfortunately, when pinned down by a battalion of journalists, the lawyer in Malcolm Turnbull overrode the visionary (if such a Turnbull exists), and the Prime Minister struggled to articulate many values at all, preferring that ‘the public’ draw up the appropriate list themselves (ie.

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