Once upon a time, in high school, our politics teacher asked us what the Australian national identity was.
To wit, we were stumped.
He then asked us what the Chinese national identity was. We rattled off all kinds of things – a common ethnicity, perception of oneself as the ‘Middle Kingdom’, Confucianism, and a few other spicy things teenage boys no doubt cacked themselves with.
Today, in 2023, what is the Australian national identity from a global point of view?
It isn’t one of the laid-back larrikin, thumbing his nose at giant spiders and authority.
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