The slogans remove any form of nuance or sophisticated debate, deliberately encouraging a simple yes or no answer to a complex issue. Alas, the politicians know we have zero time for nuance, and it takes too long to explain anyway so just make it simple, stupid and all will be fine.
Read MoreTaunting Australians about being from a penal colony is bizarre because it lacks logic and is far from truth-telling about the British's thirst to colonise often defenceless peoples and their lands.
After all, it was the colonising English who arrived on the shores of the great southern continent, claimed Terra Nullius (nobody's land), raised the Union Jack, and terrorised, enslaved, and murdered the locals.
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