Many of us have firsthand experience of the ocean’s lethal power, yet we cannot stay away
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There is no place in Australia as egalitarian or as democratic as the beach. The beach doesn’t care who you are or what you wear. It doesn’t discriminate on the basis of race or religion. It says come as you are, and all over Australia we heed that call.
The day after Boxing Day, at Sydney’s Bronte beach, so many different tribes are down at the water. Huge multi-generational families are having picnics next to blonde, Botoxed social media influencers, sat next to a sunburnt man with a Southern Cross tattoo on his right shoulder blade and his freckled missus under a disposable tent, near shirtless Brazilian guys drinking beers and kicking a ball around, next to a group of Tongan boys and who are running and back and forth from the baths doing bombs, while at the shore, a pregnant venture capitalist who lives up the hill stands near a hijabbed woman with her son in board shorts, all three gingerly testing the water.
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