People speak of the Tall Poppy syndrome in Australian culture and society, whereby individuals who have reached stellar heights in their lives and careers are deemed to have become—in another metaphor—too big for their boots and need to be cut down to size, in order to perpetuate the egalitarian fiction that nobody is better than anybody else, even if somebody demonstrably is. But when you think about the phenomenon for a moment, you realise that Tall-Poppy-lopping is, in fact, not only a selectively applied pruning process, but even those attaining Tall Poppy status, in the first place, are very selectively…