Like Cole Sear, the little boy in the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense who saw dead people that were invisible to everyone else, Dr Stephen Hagan has a sixth sense for racism so imperceptible that even the hypersensitive Australian Human Rights Commission couldn’t detect it. After a 20-year battle, Hagan’s claim that COON cheese is offensive was accepted last week, not under any Australian law but by the Johnny-come-lately Canadian owners of the Warnambool dairy that has been making the cheese since 1935.
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