Australian Values?
Australian Values? What are Australian Values? Who judges?
Are they Peter Dutton’s or Julia Gillard’s values? Are these values Christian Porter’s or Caroline Chisholm’s? Are they Ned Kelly’s or those that threw up the stockade at Eureka’s values? Are they the values of Scott Morrison or the values of Stan Grant?
Are they Fred Hollow’s or the values of those thrown ashore at Gallipoli’s? Who judges?
Are they the values of John Howard or the values of Gough Whitlam? Who judges?
Are they the values of Gillian Triggs or those of Pauline Hanson? Who judges? What are ‘Australian’ values?
Are they my values or the values of my sister’s? Are they the values of the children of those we so generously ‘allowed’ to come ashore from Vietnam in the 1980s, or the values of The White Australia Policy? What are these ‘Australian’ values? Who judges?
Are these values those of Francis de Groot or those of Jack Lang?
Do these ‘values’ change at every election or are they static values based on a morality? Who judges? Are these values values of Social Conscience or are they Fascist values?
What are these ‘Australian Values’? Who judges?