By Richard White
'Stimulating and informative. an antidote to the cultural balk' - Canberra Times
'To be Australian': what can that suggest? Inventing Australia units out to discover the solutions via tracing the photographs we have now used to explain our land and our humans - the convict hell, the workingman's paradise, the Bush legend, the 'typical' Australian from the shearer to the Bondi lifesaver, the land of chance, the small wealthy commercial nation, the multicultural society.
The publication argues that those pictures, instead of describing an extremely Australian truth, develop out of assumptions approximately nature, race, classification, democracy, intercourse and empire, and are 'invented' to serve the pursuits of specific groups.
There were many books approximately Australia's nationwide id; this can be the 1st to put the dialogue inside an historic context to give an explanation for how Australians' perspectives of themselves switch and why those perspectives swap within the means they do.
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