I wish to thank my wife Diana for all the hard work she did typing
the manuscript of this book, making pertinent and useful com-
ments about its contents, and for correcting my stylistic excesses,
and my children Alice and Helen for their patience while this book
was being completed. I would also like to thank all of those people who
kindly read the manuscript for me and commented on it: Andrew Norton,
Geoffrey Bolton, Peter Coleman, Peter Day, Geoff Stokes and Wayne
Hudson. As usual, final responsibility for the content of the book rests
with the author.

Parts of chapters 2 and 3 of this book were published as "'Beyond the
Australian Settlement: A Transformed Identity and Culture?'" Political
Expressions, vol 1, no 1, 1995, pp 101-14. A version of chapter 1 was
originally published in Quadrant, vol 60, no 9, 1996, pp 48-52.

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