The federal parliamentary seat of Lindsay, west of Sydney, was formed in 1984, honouring the great Australian illustrator and writer Norman Lindsay (1879-1969). The seat has been held since 2019 by the Liberal member, Melissa McIntosh.
When McIntosh’s colleague Angus Taylor was elected leader of the opposition in February, he immediately framed his political strategy around “Australian values”. He distanced himself from the government’s multiculturalism, called for a reduction to immigration and claimed to be in favour of “social inclusion” based on support for the “Australian way of life”.
Lindsay’s classic children’s book The Magic Pudding, first published in 1918, is an interesting commentary on those “Australian values”.
