Endnotes

1 Robert Hughes, in the ‘Chains of Arcady’ episode of the 1975 ABC TV series Landscape with Figures.

2 Elspeth Tilley, ‘The Lost-child Trope in White Australian Narrative’, Cross/Cultures, no. 152, 2012, pp. 21–53.

3 From AD Hope’s 1939 poem ‘Australia’: ‘And her five cities, like five teeming sores / Each drains her: a vast parasite robber-state / Where second-hand Europeans pullulate / Timidly on the edge of alien shores’.

4 Of course the anguish concerning any threat from without – in recent times, mostly articulated in unedifying claims about the dangers