Published: September 13, 2018
Alan Jones, Mark Latham and Pauline Hanson are not rebels – they’re apologists for privilege, picking on a nine year old
Harper Nielsen is a nine-year-old child attending Kenmore South state school in Queensland and the present subject of an extraordinary bullying campaign from prominent Australian adults in politics and the media.
The Year 4 student has refused to stand to sing Australia’s national anthem as instructed by her teachers, on the grounds that the anthem erases 50,000 years of Aboriginal history by claiming the nation is “young and free”.
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