Australia has scored another invitation to the world’s greatest celebration of kitsch,Eurovision. Can our care for affair with Euro razzle be sustained? For a nation of laid-back surfie types, Australia sure does care for kitsch. While our prevailing identity sees us as low-key sports fans and unkempt larrikins, and some of our greatest cultural exports – Sydney’s homosexual and lesbian mardi gras,Kylie Minogue, Baz Luhrmann – unashamedly embrace sequence and sparkle.
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Source: theguardian.com