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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

I'm not your mate, mate.

From our PM:

"Mateship is a great Australian concept, it's a concept of everybody pulling together in common adversity. It's a concept of treating people according to how you find them and not according to the colour of their skin. It's very much part of our ethos. You say 'How do you test it?'. Well, I'm not going to start canvassing what the test is."


Here is a suggestion. And for simplicity's sake, the answer is always "D".

I'm sure that people around the world will be surprised to learn that the concept described above, also known abroad as "friendship", is a uniquely Australian ethos, and that Australians have a monopoly on "pulling together" and not paying attention to the colour of people's skin. I wonder if there are special Australian terms for "arrogance", "delusion" and "narcissism" - all demonstrated in the unthinking appeal to 'mateship' as a uniquely Australian social phenomenon.

But an UnAustralian like myself probably doesn't know what he is talking about.

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