Not sold on this at all. My own experience in Straya was a lot like a look at what might have happened if the American Colonies lost the Revolution. We spring from a common coloniser with striking similarities in our treatment of Indigenous people and continued white supremacy. https://twitter.com/adamliaw/status/1299077042936279042

As a student of comparative American and Australian civics structures and politics, while I grant I cam trapped to some degree within my view as a "natural-born" American, I find that this idea that Australia's own need to reckon with its past is somehow Americanisation only

serves to act as a way for Australia to refuse to do so.

It becomes very easy for Australians of a certain type to put the whole enterprise off entirely. Or worse yet engage in protection of this history, glorifying it, and continuing it, like in the guise of One Nation.

Australia is a lot like America. America is a lot like Australia. We are colonial siblings, and we share the DNA that Great Britain passed onto us. A common language. A common approach to law. And a common imperialism and colonialism and fear of the other.

We even share an upper house! Although Aussies were smart enough to ditch the filibuster after one silly try...

America has its American Dream, Australia has its Fair Go. And both have failed to live up to these ideals for every member of each's respective society.

Let me instead suggest that Australians and Americans should be our siblings' keepers. Knowing how much we have in common, how similar our histories, and how much we share the same ideals and values, why don't we instead use each other as mirrors and check each other when needed?

Just some thoughts.