You could be forgiven for waking up on Tuesday and thinking it was not Australia Day, but   April Fools' instead.
Look at the headlines and you'll see that we have a new Australian of the Year who has pledged to make his stint all about diversity. 
In a speech on Monday night, the winner talked about how some Australians are being held back because of their gender, religion, race, disability and sexuality. And of the need to continue the powerful work done by Rosie Batty to combat domestic violence.
Which all seems highly reasonable.
But who would have guessed that Australia's newest diversity champion is a paid-up member of the straight white dudes club? A man who spent nearly 40 years rising to the top of an institution that is famed for its non-diversity - the Australian army.
And yet David Morrison (pictured) took out the Australian of the Year title, when nominees included a transgender advocate and a women who got corporate Australia to confront sex discrimination?
Is this some kind of joke?
But before you put on your outraged Akubra, Morrison's appointment actually represents a golden opportunity, not an insult.
For one thing, in recent years, he has demonstrated he is absolutely serious about tackling gender inequality and diversity. He has runs on the board when it comes to taking a stand in the army and in his post-military life has signed up as chair of Diversity Council Australia.
Morrison has also never pretended to be anything other than a lucky white man.
As he told an International Women's Day conference in 2013:
"I can never fully imagine, much less experience, the issues faced by any woman ... I have never routinely experienced discrimination in my career, nor the apprehension of violence in my personal life."
He also argues that the way women are treated globally is a "disgrace".
"We need men of authority and conscience to play a part."
So stay tuned. Morrison could prove to be one of our most interesting Australians of the Year.