‘This is the excellent foppery of the world…’  — Edmund in King Lear (Act 1, Scene 2), Shakespeare. 

In an age of mass interconnectivity, we all live in one society. Last Saturday, tens of thousands of Australians gathered in response to the killing of an African American man by a police officer on the other side of the world in the US state of Minneapolis.  

Mass protests all around the western world, emulating the riots and disorder in the Uniting States, have seen American-style racial politics exported everywhere; from London and Paris to Melbourne and Christchurch.