I spent this morning teaching on what defines Australian culture.

I summed up those characteristics as:

1. British
2. Biblical
3. Burkean

British – Christian common law, and mannerisms.
Biblical – Christ-centred & objective ethics & morality.
Burkean – life, liberty & individual responsibility.

This builds on Stephen Chavura’s brilliant de-mythologizing of multiculturalism and the Left’s false notion that Australia has no real meaningful – distinguishable – sense of culture.

(See here: https://caldronpool.com/ten-takeaways-from-dr-stephen…/  and here )

How do Indigenous Australians fit into this?

Over 50% are Christian. This is more than the majority of Australians, who, despite the dechristianisation, still benefit from all 3 defining characteristics of Australian culture.

Indigenous art and knowledge of the land offer a valuable contribution to Australian culture but do not define it.

For the brother in the back who thinks freedom of religion is a green light to multiculturalism.

Don’t confuse the latter with pluralism.

While culture is downwind of worship, freedom of religion cannot exist without freedom of speech, and vice versa.

Multiculturalism negates both.

It denies the ability to criticise pluralism and the plausibility of religious/ideological claims while also denying the freedom to live out a life that proves the validity of those ideas with an eye to individual responsibility and “love of neighbour” civic duty.

Cultural consensus in Australia – for there to be an Australia, with a people group who are distinctly Australian – must FIRST cherish, recall, and nurture its British heritage, Biblical (objective morality), and Burkean Christ-centred classical liberalism.