“We try to portray ourselves as a very egalitarian society, the land of the fair go…But I think that we are quite segregated. And class exists in Australia – it’s much more slippery and hard to get your hands on than in other places where it’s more structured and stratified. But it’s there.”

— Omar Musa

On Australian society in “Omar Musa, Australia's star slam poet, brings 'in-betweener' perspective to US” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/17/omar-musa-australia-malaysia-poet-here-come-the-dogs in The Guardian (2016 Feb 17)

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