As a 20th Century Scot, arriving in Australia as a migrant teenager when assimilation was the base criteria for migrants and common sense was pretty common, I was proud to be called an OzScot alongside Colin Lillie, Jimmy Barnes, Alistair Pope, Ian Frazer, and Colin Hay.
After completing professional training, national service, building a company from scratch, exporting to 47 countries, winning 10 awards, and having a great extended family of Aussie-born kids and grandkids, it absolutely gives me the screaming irrits to hear the ill-founded ‘Welcome to Country’ message.
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