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A Festival Down Under: Turning History on Its Head |
| Section: THE ARTS / INTERARTS |
| Author: Tony McAdam |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1988 |
| Size: 1,649 Words, 10,409 Characters |
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Australia, Mark Twain observed after a short visit to these faraway shores, is a country where lies come true. No doubt this was meant as a compliment. Little did he know just how true his clever paradox was.
As everyone in the world must know, 1988 is Australia's bicentennial year, "marking two hundred years of white settlement." The qualification is now obligatory in any mention of the bicentennial, for it underlines the painful obsession of our scribes with the Australian aborigine, reflecting as it does the curious antipodean cult of the Noble Savage, by which the otherwise incomprehensible is rendered scared and the truly sacred absurd.
If nothing else, Australia's two-hundredth birthday has at least fostered the thing Australia seems to do best--rewriting history to suit ...
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...de"--had just gone too far.
Like many others, the huge and unmistakably clear affirmation of traditional values by ordinary Australians at the time of our bicentennial celebrations earlier this year convinced me that while it is often said that Australia is a country of great potential and always will be, the good news is that this country is well on its way to realizing that greatness.
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