I’m not usually patriotic. But Pauline Hanson’s cheap nationalism has me rooting for multicultural Australia | Paul Daley

Patriotism can be angry and stridently militaristic – or it can be a gentle pride in the success of an experiment like multiculturalism

Patriotism is always stubbornly absent in me on days of official national commemoration.

Australia Day – Invasion Day – has always left me cold for its divisiveness, historical asymmetry and exclusivity.

Anzac Day, an unofficial national day for many, has never raised a patriotic shiver in me.

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Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist