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Let’s not be too precious about using our national symbols
By admin - Last updated: Friday, January 22, 2010
Happy Australia Day everyone.
Emblems can be a handy marketing prop, a means of identifying one’s heritage – and a cause of impassioned debate, write Richard White and Melissa Harper. Maude Wordsworth James was an enthusiastic ”patriot”. Her contribution to Australian nationalism was the promotion of ”cooee” as a patriotic symbol. One night in 1907, sleepless [...]