Royal aide Lady Susan Hussey might be spared criticism for her racist gaffe in Australia,where racial minorities who speak up can be treated as ungrateful.
As we all enjoy taking the first steps towards living with COVID,it’s time for us as a nation to say “Never again” to a return to Fortress Australia.
The left risks being marooned in the pre-vaccine world of 2020,still criticising Liberal political leaders for exposing Australians to COVID rather than offering their own alternative. There is no optimism,no energy,no hope.
Australia’s vaccination rate is ranked 49th of 50 among the world’s wealthiest countries. We should reward those who get vaccinated - not with cash or lottery tickets but with greater freedoms.
US President Joe Biden has announced one of the most diverse cabinets in US history. Scott Morrison’s government is way behind.
Crises have the power to reveal who we are. One of the things this pandemic has done is reveal just how much inequality there is around us.
The Trump administration has embodied a particular American cultural current with which Australians are intimately familiar.
The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled us to trust our public institutions and political leaders again. And our trust has been repaid. But we may be suspending our sense of ethics and reason as well. And that is dangerous.
It has been nearly five decades since an official multiculturalism was adopted in Australia. Yet that has had limited visible impact on our media.
Liberal arts graduates are taught to question power and democracy. It's tempting to see this move as a step towards cultivating compliant,"quiet Australians"instead.
Asian Australians are feeling the brunt of an irrational racist backlash to the coronavirus crisis - one that Australia needs to stamp out.