malcolm turnbull bins team australia and dials down the rhetoric | lenore taylor /

Tony Abbott divided Australians into ‘us’ and ‘them’ but the modern PM’s recasting of these roles could encourage make the country – in all its diversity – a limited bit saferMalcolm Turnbull has binned “Team Australia” and we have so many reasons to say “good riddance”.
Tony Abbott liked to exhaust the term,which portrayed the Australian community as a pre-existing “team” which migrant communities had to show they wanted to join, an “us” deciding on membership applications from a “them”.
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Source: theguardian.com