On Australia Day, how do we define our national identity? Or is the exercise too dangerous?

[dimsum]

Hmm...sound familiar?

What if Australia doesn't need a national identity?

It's that time of year again when, amidst the barbecues, beaches, citizenship ceremonies and protests, we turn our minds to questions of national identity. But can we define national identity at all? Should we even try, asks Stan Grant.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Kirkhill]

Hmm...sound familiar?

What if Australia doesn't need a national identity?

It's that time of year again when, amidst the barbecues, beaches, citizenship ceremonies and protests, we turn our minds to questions of national identity. But can we define national identity at all? Should we even try, asks Stan Grant.

www.abc.net.au

I like that concept - undefined. Or Non-Subscribing.

The first Non-Subscribing Presbytery was formed in 1725 and our most notable historical leader, Dr Henry Montgomery, took a leading part in the controversy in the 1820s that led to the formation of the Non-Subscribing Remonstrant Synod of Ulster. Our Church refuses to impose compulsory subscription to any man-made creeds in respect of a person's Christian faith. Our ethos is 'faith guided by reason and conscience' and we advocate liberal and tolerant Christianity.

Does a nation need a creed? Or is it better off without it?