Tony and Joe’s suicide by housing

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At various times and in various venues I have watched on as different social interest groups have laid claim to the contemporary high moral ground of Australian victimhood.

At a dinner party I once attended, a Jewish gentleman held forth that the defining identity conflict in Australian history was anti-semitism despite it being marginal at best.

At a function for a gay author I attended some years ago I watched on in wonder as homosexuality was cast as the defining social division of the nation despite it being almost completely irrelevant as a mover of history.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.