Australians love to talk about a ‘fair go’. Here’s what it meant before we became a nation
- Written by Cosmo Howard, Associate Professor School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
National Library of Australia“Fair go” is an expression we hear a lot in Australia. Activists use it to demand social justice, companies use it to promise customers a good deal, and politicians invoke it to persuade us that they understand the plight of ordinary people.
Most political commentators and academics who write about the fair...
