Former Deputy PM, John Anderson, has joined Michael McLaren to discuss a growing cynicism of Western civilization, and how the Australia Day debate has become a reflection of that. 

“[Western] countries now including ours, seem to be teaching our young people, that… somehow we are terrible oppressors who have a great deal to be ashamed of… The whole thing seems to be about demolishing our belief in ourselves, demonising our forebears with nothing more positive, to put in its place”

“You don’t build hope, you destroy hope”.

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