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1. Who Are the Australians?
Captain Cook’s Journal, reproduced in Manning Clark, Sources of Australian History, Oxford University Press, London, 1957, pp. 51, 52–3, 54–5.
Robert Lyon, An Appeal to the World on Behalf of the Younger Branch of the Family of Shem, printed by J. Spilsbury and J. M’Eachern, Sydney, 1839, pp. 53, 55, 84.
Bigge, John, Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry into the State of the Colony of New South Wales, Agriculture and Trade, House of Commons, London, 1823, reproduced in C.M.H. Clark, Select Documents in Australian History 1788–1850, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1950, p. 434.
Edward Geoghegan, ‘The Boy in the Cabbage-Tree Hat’, from The Currency Lass, ed. Roger Covell, Currency Press, Sydney, 1976, pp. 61–2.
George Meudell, ‘Australia for the Australians’, Melbourne Review, vol. 7, October 1882.
Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery under Arms: a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields, Remington, London, 1888, chapter 1.
‘White Australia Policy’, Bulletin, 2 July 1887.
J.T. Patten and W. Ferguson, Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights: a statement of the case for the Aborigines Progressive Association, Publicist, Sydney, 1938.
Arthur Calwell, ministerial statement on immigration, 1945, reproduced in John Lack and Jacqueline Templeton (eds), Bold Experiment: a documentary history of Australian immigration since 1945, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1975, pp. 20–1.
Catherine and Ronald Berndt, The First Australians, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1952, Introduction.
Al Grassby, ‘A Multi-cultural Society for the Future’, 1973, reproduced in John Lack and Jacqueline Templeton (eds), Bold Experiment: a documentary history of Australian immigration since 1945, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1975, pp. 143–4.
Jimmy Chi and Kuckles, Bran Nue Dae, Currency Press Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1991, pp. 15–16.
Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath & Marian Quartly, Creating a Nation, Australian Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 2006, Introduction.
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Draft Document for Reconciliation, 3 June 1999, Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Archive, <www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/car/1999/9/>.
2. Independent Spirit
Russel Ward, The Australian Legend, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1958.
John Sidney, A Voice from the Far Interior of Australia: by a bushman, Smith-Elder, London, 1847, pp. 24, 26.
Francis Adams, Fortnightly Review, August 1891; The Australians: a social sketch, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1893, pp. 165–6.
William Howitt, Land, Labour and Gold: or, two years in Victoria with visits to Sydney and Van Diemen’s Land, Lowden, Kilmore, 1972, pp. 310, 374–5.
Anthony Trollope, Australia, eds P.D. Edwards & R.B. Joyce, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1967, pp. 449–50.
Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1901, chapter 23.
Ned Kelly’s words in the dock, Argus, 30 October 1880.
3. Mateship
John Chandler, Forty Years in the Wilderness, ed. Michael Cannon, Loch Haven Books, Main Ridge, 1990, pp. 90, 91–2, 94.
Rolf Boldrewood, Shearing in the Riverina 1865, John Ferguson, Sydney, 1983, pp. 31–3.
T.G.H. Strehlow, Journey to Horseshoe Bend, Rigby, Adelaide, 1969, pp. 58–9.
Song about Chinese shearers, reproduced in Russel Ward, The Australian Legend, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1958, p. 123.
Miriam Dixson, The Real Matilda: woman and identity in Australia 1788 to the present, UNSW Press, Sydney, 1999 (Penguin 1976 edition: p. 81).
Macgregor Duncan et al., Imagining Australia: ideas for our future, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2004, pp. 17–19.
4. Diggers
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Argus, 8 May 1915.
Charles E.W. Bean, ‘End of the first phase of the campaign’, in The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, vol. 1: The story of Anzac, Queensland University Press in association with the Australian War Memorial, Brisbane, 1981. The 11th edition of the work can be found at <www.awm.gov.au/histories/volume.asp?conflict=1>.
Round Table, March 1919.
Alan Seymour, One Day of the Year, in Three Australian Plays, Penguin, Ringwood, 1985, pp. 78–80.
Mark Ryan (ed.), Advancing Australia: the speeches of Paul Keating, Big Picture Publications, Sydney, 1995, pp. 287–8.
Peter Kieseker, ‘Non-government organisations’ in Peacekeeping: challenges for the future, ADF Academy, Canberra, 1993, pp. 70–3.
Peter Cosgrove in Patrick Lindsay, The Spirit of the Digger: then and now, Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 1993, pp. 39–40.
John Birmingham, A Time for War: Australia as a military power, Quarterly Essay 20, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2005, pp. 52–3, 54–5, 55.
5. Larrikins
John Stanley James, The Vagabond Papers: sketches of Melbourne life, in light and shade, third series, 1877, reproduced in Frank Crowley, Colonial Australia 1875–1900, Nelson, Melbourne, 1980, p. 33.
C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1915.
C.J. Dennis, The Moods of Ginger Mick, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1916.
Eric Lambert, The Twenty Thousand Thieves, Newmont, Melbourne, 1951, pp. 93–5, 145–6.
Sol Encel, ‘The Larrikin Leaders’ in Nation, 25 May 1968.
6. Suburban Nation
Robin Boyd, Australia’s Home: its origins, builders and occupiers, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1952, pp. 3–4.
George Johnston, My Brother Jack, Collins, London, 1964, chapter 13.
Barry Humphries, A Nice Night’s Entertainment, Currency Press Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1981, pp. 15–17.
Craig McGregor, Profile of Australia, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1966, chapter 14.
Janet McCalman, Struggletown: public and private life in Richmond, 1900–1965, Hyland House, South Melbourne, 1998, p. 54.
Tim Winton in Good Weekend, 27 August 1994.
Hugh Stretton, Ideas for Australian Cities, published by the author, Adelaide, 1970, pp. 14–16, 20–1.
7. Empty and Flat
Beatrice Webb, The Webbs’ Australian Diary 1898, ed. A.G. Austin, Sir Issac Pitman & Sons, Melbourne, 1965, pp. 107–8.
D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo, Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1923, chapter 14.
Warren Roberts et al. (eds), The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, vol. 4, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 271.
G.H. Cowling, ‘The Future of Australian Literature’, Age, 16 February 1935.
A.D. Hope, ‘Australia’ in The Penguin Book of Australian Verse, selected and edited by John Thompson, Kenneth Slessor & R.G. Howarth, Penguin, Middlesex, 1958.
Patrick White, Voss, Viking Press, New York, 1957, chapter 2.
Donald Horne, The Lucky Country, Penguin, Ringwood, 1964, pp. 34–6.
Anna Couani, Were All the Women Sex-mad? and other stories, Rigmarole Books, Melbourne, 1982, pp. 29–30. The full text is available at <http://seacruise.ath.cx/annacouani/wereallwomen/Index.html>.
8. Put-downs
Charles Darwin, A Naturalist’s Voyage: journal of researches into natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle under the command of Capt. FitzRoy, R.N., John Murray, London, 1879, p. 444.
F.G. Clarke, The Land of Contrarieties: British attitudes to the Australian colonies, 1828–1855, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1977, p. 170.
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapman, London, 1850, chapter 51.
English cricketer, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 February 1879.
Anthony Trollope, Australia, eds P.D. Edwards & R.B. Joyce, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1967, pp. 375–6.
J.A. Froude, Oceana: or, England and her colonies, Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1886, p. 191.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest: a trivial comedy for serious people, Samuel French, London, 1895, Act II.
Warren Roberts et al. (eds), The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, vol. 4, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 263.
H.G. Wells, Age, 27 January 1939.
Lord Moran, Winston Churchill: the struggle for survival, 1940–1965, Constable, London, 1966, p. 21.
David Horner, Crisis of Command: Australian generalship and the Japanese threat, 1941–1943, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1978, pp. 209, 210.
Germaine Greer, London Observer, 1 August 1982.
Paul Keating, Age, 17 November 2005.
Bob Hawke, The Hawke Memoirs, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1994, p. 501.
9. Sport
John O’Brien, Around the Boree Log and Other Verses, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1921.
Richard Twopeny, ‘Amusements’, in Town Life in Australia, Elliot Stock, London, 1883.
Mark Twain, Mark Twain in Australia and New Zealand, Penguin, Ringwood, 1973, pp. 161–3.
Daily Telegraph (Melbourne), 27 February 1883.
David Malouf, Made in England: Australia’s British inheritance, Quarterly Essay 12, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2003, pp. 60–1.
Laurence Le Quesne, The BodyLine Controversy, Unwin, London, 1983, pp. 70–1, 72. Reprinted by permission of Random House Group Ltd.
BBC Sport, Dream Symbol for a New Australia, BBC Sport website, 15 September 2000, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics2000/926700.stm>.
10. Anthems Official and Unofficial
‘Advance Australia Fair’, 1879 version, National Library of Australia, <http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an24220024>.
Dorothea Mackellar, ‘My Country’, in The Closed Door and Other Verses, Specialty Press, Melbourne, 1911.
C.J. Dennis, ‘The Australaise’, in Backblock Ballads and Other Verses, Coles Book Arcade, Melbourne, 1913.
11. Surprises
Richard Twopeny, ‘Amusements’, in Town Life in Australia, Elliot Stock, London, 1883.
Geoffrey Blainey, Our Side of the Country: the story of Victoria, Methuen Haynes, North Ryde, 1984, pp. 93–4.
Hatice Hurmuz and Vecihi Basarin, The Turks in Australia: celebrating twenty-five years in Australia, Turquoise Publications, Melbourne, 1993, pp. 43, 69, 91, 114.
Osvaldo Bonutto, A Migrant’s Story: the struggle and success of an Italian-Australian 1920s–1960s, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1994, pp. 45–6.
A.F. Davies, Australian Democracy: an introduction to the political system, Longmans-Green, London, 1958, part I, chapter 1.
Marian Sawer, Sisters in Suits: women and public policy in Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990, pp. xiv–xv.
John Hirst, ‘The Distinctiveness of Australian Democracy’, Papers on Parliament, Department of Senate, Canberra, 2004. Can be viewed at <www.aph.gov.au/Senate/pubs/pops/pop42/hirst.pdf>.
12. Contrasts
Henry Handel Richardson, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Heinemann, London, 1930, book II, chapter 5.
‘Much Better than Britain’, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 September 1879, reproduced in Frank Crowley, Colonial Australia 1875–1900, Nelson, Melbourne, 1980, pp. 65–6.
Charles E.W. Bean, The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, vol. 5, Queensland University Press in association with the Australian War Memorial, Brisbane, 1981, pp. 175, 177. The 11th edition of the work can be found at <www.awm.gov.au/histories/volume.asp?conflict=1>.
Bill Gammage, The Broken Years: Australian soldiers in the great war, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1974, p. 227.
‘We Are Here, Too’: the diaries and letters of Sister Olive LC Haynes, November 1914 to February 1918, compiled and edited by Margaret O. Young, Australian Down Syndrome Association, Adelaide, 1991, pp. 149, 155.
Sister M.R. Thomas, narrative, Australian War Memorial, 41/1052.
Sister Elsie Tranter, diary, State Library of Victoria, MS 10786, pp. 121–2.
Gavan Daws, Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific, Scribe Publications, Carlton North, 2004, Author’s Note.
George Orwell, ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’, in The Penguin Essays of George Orwell, Penguin, London, 1984, pp. 146–7.
David Malouf, Made in England: Australia’s British inheritance, Quarterly Essay 12, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2003, pp. 16, 17, 18, 20.
13. Fair Go
Daniel Deniehy, speech, reproduced in C.M.H. Clark, Select Documents in Australian History 1851–1900, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1955, pp. 341–2 (rendered into direct speech).
Charles Thatcher, ‘Hurrah for Australia’, reproduced in C.M.H. Clark, Select Documents in Australian History 1851–1900, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1955, pp. 105–6.
Charles E.W. Bean, The Dreadnought of the Darling, Alston Rivers, London, 1911, pp. 307–9.
Charles Dilke, Greater Britain: Charles Dilke visits her new lands 1866 & 1867, ed. Geoffrey Blainey, Methuen Haynes, North Ryde, 1985, p. 118.
Richard Twopeny, ‘Young Australia’, in Town Life in Australia, Elliot Stock, London, 1883.
Leader of the unemployed, Argus, 18 August 1855.
Justice H.B. Higgins quoted in Manning Clark, Sources of Australian History, Oxford University Press, London, 1957, p. 501.
Keith Hancock, Australia, Jacaranda, Brisbane, 1961, p. 55.
Henry Wrixon, Jacob Shumate: or, the people’s march, a voice from the ranks, vol. 1, Macmillan, London, 1903, pp. 168–9.
Peter Saunders, ‘What is Fair about a “Fair Go”?’, Policy, Autumn 2004.
Carmen Lawrence, ‘A Fair Go in the Classroom’, <www.carmenlawrence.com>.
John Howard, address to Melbourne Press Club, 22 November 2000, <www.pm.gov.au/media/Speech/2000/speech549.cfm>.
Craig McGregor, Profile of Australia, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1966, chapters 2, 15.
14. Humour
James Mudie, The Felonry of New South Wales, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1964, pp. 118–19.
Charles E.W. Bean, The Dreadnought of the Darling, Alston Rivers, London, 1911, p. 330.
Brian Matthews in The Oxford Companion to Australian History, ed. Graeme Davison, John Hirst & Stuart Macintyre, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998.
D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo, Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1923, chapter 14.
Craig McGregor, Profile of Australia, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1966, chapter 2.
Les Murray, ‘Some religious stuff I know about Australia’, in The Quality of Sprawl, Duff y & Snellgrove, Sydney, 1999, pp. 26–7.
15. Newest Australians
Andrew Riemer, Inside Outside: life between two worlds, ETT Imprint, Sydney, 1992, pp. 14, 14–15, 29, 30.
Morag Loh (ed.), With Courage in their Cases: the experiences of thirty-five Italian migrant workers and their families in Australia, Italian Federation of Emigrant Workers and their Families, Melbourne, 1980, pp. 125, 126, 127, 129–30, 131, 132.
Nguyen Xuan Thu (ed.), Life with Past Images: personal accounts of eight Vietnamese settlers in Australia, Phillip Institute of Technology, Coburg, 1986, p. 69.
Maria Lewitt, No Snow in December: an autobiographical novel, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1985, pp. 281–3.
16. Going Native
Russel Ward, The Australian Legend, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1958, pp. 186–7.
David Thompson, ‘Origins of the Australian Football Code’, BA honours thesis, La Trobe University, 2005, pp. 38–9, 48–9.
Germaine Greer, Whitefella Jump Up: the shortest way to nationhood, Quarterly Essay 11, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2003, pp. 57–8, 62.
Tim Flannery, The Future Eaters: an ecological history of the Australasian lands and people, Reed Books, Chatswood, 1994, pp. 391–2.
Inga Clendinnen, Dancing with Strangers, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2003, p. 288.
‘Mosquito’ in Henry Melville’s The History of the Island of Van Diemen’s Land, Smith and Elder, London, 1835, p. 35.
Richard Broome, Aboriginal Victorians: a history since 1800, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2005, p. 280.