AUSTRALIANISTT

HIS SEEMS to have been coined in January 1941 by sub-editor in a headline for an article about Australia’s so-called Jindyworobak Movement poets, which included Ian Mudie and Rex Ingamells. defines an Australianist as a “person who espouses Australian attitudes or values; an expert in…some aspect of Australia”, especially “its history or literature, or its Indigenous languages”. Lexicographer Bill Ramson used the word in his description in f Sidney J. Baker, who researched and wrote on the Australian language. The related word Australianism, which goes back to 1842, is defined as “pride in, or loyalty to, Australian nationalism; a character distinctively Australian”. This magazine is distinctly Australianist!