Corrupt Australia presents an alternative to the politically correct channels of debate to reveal and scrutinize the skewed structure/design of modern Australian society. We also seek to encourage autonomous Australian culture which is free from the standardizing and overly materialistic clutches of globalisation and which encourages citizens to go further than simply contributing to a quantity over quality mindset and the banal and unsustainable conditions under which we may increase our love for and attainment of material mass.

The fashion of Multiculturalism


"She might not have been in the running for the David Jones gig (and more's the pity). But Aboriginal Australian model Samantha Harris has just scored her first music video cameo.

In 2006 Harris told the SBS program Living Black that she wanted to be "the world's first Aboriginal supermodel".

Just six months ago the fashion press was agog with the lack of diversity on the runways."

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The interest here lies not with Harris herself but the society surrounding her. Do we possess any real understanding of Multiculturalism or is it simply another trendy fad that everyone likes to be seen to be supporting, kind of like a herd mentality? More to the point, does worrying about something as obscure as the lack of non-white women on catwalks reflect a concern with other cultures and their unique aspects or an obsession with hoisting our own 'culture' upon people of all others? Would 'diversity' really be reflected by scores of anorexic Aboriginal women stalking like moving mannequin-clones up and down a catwalk?

We should avoid the slavish subconscious mentality, suspicious and nervous about difference, which is at work within the Western world at the moment and which seeks to transform traditional cultures everywhere, including those of the West, into a collection of generic behaviours and beliefs concerned with nothing higher than products.


Think of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.

Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by.
There was room in the long, free lines of the van to fight for it side by side -
There was beating-room for the heart of a man in the days when the world was wide.

With its dull, brown days of a-shilling-an-hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England's power? - the bourne of the Outward Bound?
Is this the sequel of Westward Ho! - of the days of Whate'er Betide? The heart of the rebel makes answer "No! We'll fight till the world grows wide!"

The world shall yet be a wider world - for the tokens are manifest; East and North shall the wrongs be hurled that followed us South and West. The march of Freedom is North by the Dawn! Follow, whate'er betide! Sons of the Exiles, march! March on! March till the world grows wide!

- Henry Lawson

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