Tomlinson’s tired old tune

WE are writing to comment on the articles by Julian Tomlinson.

His piece “Oz Day criticism a tired cliché” (CP, 25/1) was itself ‘a tired cliché’ and the load of old codswallop that finally prompted us to write to you. But we see that last week’s opinion piece is no better.

Julian’s articles follow the Trump line: selective use of facts at best, although mostly half-truths, common misconceptions, prejudiced interpretations and historically “politically correct” blather.

It’s disappointing, boring and irritating to have this drivel continually recycled.

His statement: ”If Australia – according to a noisy minority of Marxism-inspired serial whingers ...” is such an example.

It makes me think that Julian Tomlinson is himself a ‘serial whinger’ as that is all he does.

If such comments weren’t so obviously ludicrous, they would be pathetic.

Besides, we have our own homegrown version on the Tablelands as anyone who reads the Tableland newspapers would know. Robyn and Roy Murray-Prior, Yungaburra 1840: Treaty of Waitangi is signed in

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