What’s going on?!
The old truism used to be that, apart from sporting events, Australians level of patriotism was directly proportional to their distance from home.
But, suddenly, I’m driving around seeing people with multiple flags hanging off their cars, banners proclaiming “Happy Australia Day!” and similar sentiments, and I caught myself thinking that this is all, ironically, strangely un-Australian behaviour. What’s going on around here?
Next thing you know, we’ll be standing with hats off and hands to hearts when the anthem plays…
Crikey!