COVID exposed our fractured national identity, but state-based loyalties were rising long before
- Written by Judith Brett, Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-NDThe formation of Australia’s federation in 1901 was both practical and sentimental. Pressing policy matters in the areas of immigration, trade and defence required the coordination of a federal government. As important was the growing nationalist feeling that the people in the different colonies were...
