‘WHAT do they know of Australia, who only our cities know?’

Andrew Bolt:
‘..And what can they love?
I ask – warn, actually – because we in the cities have stopped romancing the country.
Suddenly, the bush has almost vanished from our television screens, as well as from our art, our poetry and even the songs of our country singers.
It’s gone, just when we most need to remind our children how much there is to love that lies beyond their suburbs.
Two news items from yesterday’s papers hinted at why we should worry….’