Is the “Welcome to Country” scam finally running dry? It’s had a good run, this “ancient ceremony” that was invented in 1976. But, in a classic tale of hubris, just when it’s become all-but-ubiquitous, the racket may finally be going broke.
Not just because Australians are thoroughly sick of the empty virtue-signalling, and constant tacit implications that they don’t belong in their own country.
But also because more and more Australians are waking up to the fact that it’s a cynical money-grab.
