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David Day's defence mythology.

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| November 01, 2004 | Colebatch, Hal G.P. | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WRITING IN the Australian recently, anti-British and anti-American polemicist David Day claimed as part of his continuing attack on Australia's military and cultural alliances that "a deep vein of anxiety about invasion has been part of our collective psyche for more than a century".

When I read portentous-sounding pronouncements about things like "our collective psyche" my first impulse (well, my second impulse--my first involves the cylindrical filing cabinet) is to ask what is meant and what is the evidence for the pronouncement.

If Australia was deeply anxious about invasion throughout the last century why did it virtually disband its armed forces in ...

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