This phrase is as slippery as it is silly.  Three stories in The Age yesterday show why.

Prince Harry does have some use.  His work with Invictus is good for those in armed services who return from war – and who are seen as failures.  We in Australia have an appalling record on this going back more than seventy years.  In a fine article on the work of Prince Harry, Rob Harris reminds us that a royal commission found that between 1985 and 2021, 2007 defence personnel killed themselves.  That is an appalling indictment on the whole nation.  On which we are silent.

A Canberra Uber driver named Umair Ayub was sacked by the ‘$210 billion global behemoth’ after its robots recorded that he had not maintained the required approval rating.  Uber maintains its huge workforce by algorithms.  (God help anyone who tries to speak to a human being.)  The industrial body recorded that no human being was involved in any of the decision making, and set the decision aside as ‘illogical and arbitrary.’  It was not called on to decide if Uber was guilty of a crime against humanity.

There has been long running litigation about the wealth of Gina Reinhart that has nearly broken the system.  Fifteen years of legal feuding have cost about $100 million.  Gina Reinhart funds an electoral aberration who gets votes by saying there is no such thing as a good Muslim.

Which of those stories best showcases Australian values?