Australian Identity
Australians since the early part of this century has been preoccupied with the idea of capturing and representing an Australian distinctiveness - the much-vaunted "Australian Identity". It is a familiar irony that one of the most urbanised countries in the world (since at least the late 19th century) should have sought this identity in constructed myths of the 'bush' - the famous 'Legend of the Nineties' popularised in the writing of Henry Lawson, Banjo Patterson and others and still exploited in recent movies such as Crocodile Dundee and TV shows such as The Bush Tucker Man. Another irony is that the playwright who came to be seen as the pioneer of Australian drama, Louis Esson was an inner city Melbourne bohemian who took his model from the Irish
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Approximate Word count = 524
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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