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I honour my God; I serve my Queen; I salute my flag
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At the beginning of the 21st century, the pledge became a matter of controversy. The Queen was the Queen of England, and many Australians were secular and objected to the reference to God. Only the flag remained uncontroversial.

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Value the perspective of different cultures and recognize the cultural mores that underpin groups and appreciate why these are valued and important.
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The distortion of accuracy and loss of trust among a wider public that looks at biased news coverage, smells a rat, and switches off is only part of the danger. The other, more sinister, side of the equation is that any old despot can ensure favourable coverage of his regime, so long as he presents a properly anti-Western front…. When news judgments are clouded by a warmed-over postmodernism that filters every conflict through a cloudy lens of class and power struggles, and where the US is the worst bad guy of all, totalitarians and terrorists turn the West's hard-won free press into their own ministry of propaganda.
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Never at any time was Hirohito forced by duress to give his written approval …. Is his crime not greater because he approved of something in which he did not believe?
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The last rhetorical question tried to refute the “defense” that the Emperor didn’t believe in the military incursions and the other atrocities committed by the Japanese even though he personally approved almost all of them.

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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney.