Good trouble

I arrive in Australia to feverish talk of a rebellion. There has been a ‘teenage revolt’. A mass act of ‘defiance’ against the establishment. ‘Radicals’ are on the loose. Being an old leftie at heart — from a time when the Left were normal people interested in progress, growth and jobs, not plummy graduates of Gender Studies departments who think a man’s right to use a woman’s dunny is the great civil rights cause of our age — I find myself getting excited.