Australians love to talk about a ‘fair go’. Here’s what it meant before we became a nation

Australians love to talk about a ‘fair go’. Here’s what it meant before we became a nation

National Library of Australia“Fair go” is an expression we hear a lot in Australia. Activists use it to demand social justice, companies use it to promise customers a good deal, and politicians invoke it to persuade us that they understand the plight of ordinary people. Most political commentators and academics who write about the fair go associate the phrase with Australia’s famed egalitarian traditions, including equality of economic opportun…