‘Culturally, white Australians have constructed their own representation as “other” to Europe, while at the same time perceiving Aborigines as “other” to their own Europeanness. This contradiction has prompted the continual inscription and re-inscription of the landscape, remaking representations in accord with the shifting demands of a (white) national self.’
Ian Burn, “The Metropolis is only Half the Horizon” in Butler, 1996, p. 240