Imperial Australia still lives
December 21, 2024
It is almost exactly two years since I wrote more in sorrow than in anger about Australia’s neocolonial treatment of its offshore territories, especially Norfolk, Christmas and Cocos Islands. At the time, Australia had achieved the dubious distinction of being the last colonial power in the Pacific and Indian Oceans which had steadfastly refused to grant some level of democracy in the territories it purported to possess.
