As Australia Day comes around, battle lines are again being drawn by self-described ‘progressives’ who refuse to see anything to celebrate about Australia. The great irony of this, is that for most of our history since Captain Arthur Phillip hoisted the Union Jack at Sydney Cove on January 26, 1788, Australia, and the colonies from which it was created, was in the vanguard of progress.
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