Letter

In response to After 50 years, it’s time we called it a coup

Infantilism as a national value

Our national inability, cultured in us by Great Britain and the US, to bell the cat of our continued infantile need for mummy or daddy to tell us what to think and do, remains.

If what happened to us in 1975 happened in a country we had been taught to hate or fear, we would have called if what it was – a coup!!

But to acknowledge that happened in Australia would challenge our childish need for mummy or daddy to tell us what just happened.

It relieves us of need to make a decision for ourselves. We remain in political nappies.

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW2041