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The financialisaton of national and personal identity

In a recent post, I made a connection between the economic reforms of the 1980s and our changing ways of celebrating Australia Day. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while, without really going into it deeply, though I did give it some consideration in Voices of Us.

As any writer will tell you, there is this thing that happens surprisingly frequently, where the thing/s you are writing about—fiction or non-fiction—find resonances in the world around you. Because your brain is there anyway, your subject material will tend to frame everything else that comes into your field of view so that suddenly it can feel like everything is about what you are writing about. It is serendipity turned up to eleven, and I suspect it is fundamental to all creativity.

Anyway, sometimes the connections you come across are much more direct—it is simply the timing that seems otherworldly—and I had that experience the day after I published the Australia Day post. I came across this interview with In…