The 'black Armband' View Of Our History

We Won't Just Automatically Click Our Heels And Follow The Americans.

The 'black Armband' View Of Our History Reflects A Belief That Most Australian History Since 1788 Has Been Little More Than A Disgraceful Story Of Imperialism, Exploitation, Racism, Sexism And Other Forms Of Discrimination. I Take A Very Different View. I Believe That The Balance Sheet Of Our History Is One Of Heroic Achievement And That We Have Achieved Much More As A Nation Of Which We Can Be Proud Of Than Which We Should Be Ashamed.

The Believer's Cross Is No Longer Any And Every Kind Of Suffering, Sickness, Or Tension, The Bearing Of Which Is Demanded. The Believer's Cross Must Be, Like His Lord's, The Price Of His Social Nonconformity. It Is Not, Like Sickness Or Catastrophe, An Inexplicable, Unpredictable Suffering; It Is The End Of The Path Freely Chosen After Counting The Cost. It Is Not, Like Luther's Or Thomas Muntzer's Or Zinzendorf's Or Kierkegaard's Cross, An Inward Wrestling Of The Sensitive Soul With Self And Sin; It Is The Social Reality Of Representing In An Unwilling World The Order To Come.

I Don't Think There's Any Reason On Earth Why People Should Have Access To Automatic And Semiautomatic Weapons Unless They're In The Military Or In The Police.

The Most Important Civil Liberty... Is To Stay Alive And To Be Free From Violence And Death.