Playing the shame game

Australians refuse to be brow beaten into voting for the Voice

The Cultural Cringe is back. Fear that the Voice referendum will fail has triggered a sharp burst of cultural anxiety among educated Australians who falsely imagine that the rest of humanity has nothing better to do than look disdainfully upon their uncultivated land.

‘The eyes of the world are upon us,’ wrote Troy Bramston in the Australian last week, d…