On 26 January 2016, John Pilger spoke at a rally at Sydney Town Hall on the hidden meaning of ‘Survival Day’.
“Societies like Australia – with dark secrets and dishonest politics – feed off image and tokenism. They admire their own image of gormless, unthinking patriotism, while secretly admiring their capacity to silence and divert dissent and to control and co-opt people and never to change.”
