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

‘Australia’s cultural institutions are replete with [again true] stories that celebrate an enduring multicultural Australia,’ writes Paul Daley. Photograph: Down Under Digital/Alamy

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.