Words in More than Black and White

A deeper look at Tony Abbott's London speech.

The Olympia Exhibition Centre in London, now rebadged as Olympia London, was opened in 1886, at a time when the might of the British Empire was unquestioned. By the time Olympia held its first exhibition, the empire spanned one-fifth of the planet’s surface and approximately one-quarter of the world’s population were branded British subjects.

It would ha…