THE AWFUL AUSTRALIAN
The
Awful Australian
VALERIE DESMOND
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FOREWORD.
There has been so much adulation lately ofAustralia, Australian institutions, and the Australianpeople by writers with axes to grind andEnglish politicians with party ends to serve thatthe people of the Commonwealth have come tobelieve that they are the salt of the earth, andthat their country is the earth. Personally, I amimpatient of such credulity, and I think it istime somebody called upon the self-satisfied Australiansto show cause why a little more humilityand a little less arrogance were not more seemly.With a view to restoring an apparently lost senseof proportion to the press and public of thecountry, I have written the following pages. If intelling the truth I shame the Australian this bookwill achieve its object. Should a howl of indignationbe provoked, then will the condition of affairsbe proved worse than my pen has power to depict,and nothing will be left but to declare Australiapast redemption. This is the case for the prosecution.
VALERIE DESMOND.
Sydney, July 15, 1911.
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