Excellent article. Says it all.

I had the sheer pleasure of recently watching on Aunty ABCTV, for the uumteenth time, Baz Lurhman’s masterpiece “Strictly Ballroom”. How joyous was the scene when Fran’s Spanish family graciously, proudly and tenderly teach Scott how to dance the Passa Doble properly. Now that is the Australia I love and celebrate. Multiculturalism at its simplest and most splendid. Not the racist Australia I grew up in as a kid. An Australia which still didn’t acknowledge our indigenous brothers and sisters, a culture that called Greeks and Italians ‘wogs’, a culture that adopted a whites only Australia, a culture that stigmatizes refugees fleeing persecution and wars.

Australia has always been a racist country. To deny that is to deny the reality of history. Poor-lean is playing to that. I, me, myself, personally refuse to participate in her hate.