I was a Halloween grinch but I've realised Australia needs it | Jack Latimore

From politicians to the Namorroddo spirits of Arnhem Land, Halloween could benefit from our own hobgoblins, skeletons and wraiths

Australia needs Halloween and we should embrace it, witches’ warts and all. We’ve got so many homegrown bogeymen to draw from that it’d be a waste not to pounce upon the opportunity to unsparingly lampoon them in the streets for treats and the general merriment of our little devils.

If you listened to all the grousing, you’d think adopting Halloween into our calendar was akin to treason, a tenebrous blight on the true-blue Aussie identity.

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