Australians Now Contemplating Whether ‘Woke’ Has Gone Too Far

Commentary “For we are one and free” is the second line that Australians recite when singing their national anthem. National unity and treating everyone equally is an integral part of the basic Australian fabric. These virtues and upholding them is core to maintaining a stable society.  The land of the “fair go,” “mateship,” and treating each other fairly are endearing and enduring Australian qualities. Into this ethos has crept the ubiquitous “Acknowledgement of Country” recitals of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples at nearly every public event.  It seems Australians are finally giving expression to their views on this overdone, virtue signalling, and patronising mantra—an initiative many Aboriginal leaders themselves decry as cringeworthy....