Why I won't play for team Australia

By Jack Waterford
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:14pm, first published August 21 2014 - 2:55pm

I don't want to play for team Australia, or for team Abbott. And I wouldn't encourage my children to, either. The real community of Australians is not a band of footy thugs ruthlessly enforcing conformity, led by a bully who doesn't hesitate to punch people on his own side, who divides people according to whether they are for or against him, and who wants everyone to defer to his judgment about matters of the general interests of the team.

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