1. Australian National Identity
... which was formed around a distinctive Anglo-Celtic ethnical core definitely continued to increase. Australian artists and poets helped to create the Australian Bush Legend that might be "a source of unique national character" (Lecture 18.3.2004). Painters such as Tom Roberts, Charles Condor, Hans Heysen and Arthur Streeton began to paint Australian images. Poets and writers, who wrote about the landscape ... definition of the Australian type. This common idea of identity might also be understood as an invented tradition in which a variety of disparate phenomena have been thrown togethe...
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