Elizabeth R

I was happy to let the passing of Elizabeth II go unremarked, to understand her death as an important moment, worthy of respect, even from those of us who were not monarchists.

My dedication to this proposition started to wane earlier than I thought it might as an unstoppable flood of drivel was released through the mainstream media, of individuals and institutions engaging, not just in unseemly displays of forelock tugging, but in active erasure of the experiences of colonised peoples around the world (and more about that in another post), and the manufacture of a first draft of history that was insulting and misleading.

I couldn’t make up my mind which response was the most ridiculous. Was it the Herald Sun running a picture of a cloud that “looked like the Queen”