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...that this century would be characterized by a return to conservative behavioral norms, as a means of correcting the political extremes of the 1960s and 70s (Legge 21). Certainly Australia's college and university population, that is young people in their early twenties, are evidence that the pendulum is swinging toward staunch conservatism. For decades, portraits of the Queen have been either banished from student premises in Australia or else used as a dart board. Recently, a student council not only voted to install an Australian flag but also a picture of the Queen (Legge 21). Another group of students is described as intent on "ransacking politically correct queer rooms and women's departments with the abandon that brought down communism's Berlin Wall" (Legge 21). Earlier in 2005, vandals caused considerable damage to the George Duncan Room, which is named after a gay lecturer who died in Adelaide parkland, presumably from police violence (Legge 21). The vandals "scrawled homophobic vitriol over the walls" (Legge 21).
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