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The Weekend Read: Mark McKenna on ‘The Stunted Country’

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Australians Are Anonymous, Featureless, Nothing Men

The bicentennial year, malcolm turnbull wrote, was a year of shame. Every major event was presided over by a member of the british royal family. The australian republican movement's resondettre was grounded in this cultural nationalism of the 19 sixties - when the first stirrings of modern republicanism emerged.

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