3 June

Australia organises itself around the idea of community. It doesn’t really think much about it (which is a threat I think, we could lose it), it just does it. Other countries use territory and class and rank etc. to organise their countries. We use community, a social thing. At every scale, from our local street through to national events. Maybe the only country to organise itself based on how we live together socially, as a group. It even explains how we use FB, Australian FB is saturated with community-focused posts. The recent election I think was this community focus finally rejecting years of attempts to turn us into a country of aspirational individuals, like the US and UK.