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Activists cheer while Old Parliament House burns

31 December 2021

1:23 PM

31 December 2021

1:23 PM

Thursday’s ‘protest’ outside Canberra’s Old Parliament House, with Aboriginal activists – whether they were themselves Aboriginal or others claiming to represent their cause – intentionally or otherwise setting fire to the historic entrance facade. It is where George VI opened the building, where Dame Nellie Melba sang, and where the Left’s sainted Gough Whitlam declaimed ‘Well may we say, God save the Queen’ – is nauseatingly disgusting on so many levels.

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