In a wide country of boundless resources, why is this thing? This question worried me. Our legislators are unable or unwilling to cope with it. They trouble not to be patriots or statesmen. Australia can bring forth writers, orators, financiers, singers, musicians, actors, and athletes which are second to none of any nation under the sun. Why can she not bear sons, men of soul, mind, truth, godliness, and patriotism sufficient to rise and cast off the grim shackles which widen round us day by day?
- Miles Franklin, "My Brilliant Career", 1901
Nothing has changed in over one hundred years....
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Why not? It's because she now bears daughters, women of soul, mind, truth...er... okay, come undone.
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