STEPPING BACK--STEPPING FORWARD. From: Southerly | Date: March 22, 2000| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2000 English Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Any piracy, any theft, any evil would be made alright by the future--isn't that our colonial philosophy? From the Governor to the scullery maid we became Australians, a race with one foot in the air, caught stepping forward.

Rodney Hall, The Second Bridegroom (1994:17)

As an Australian who has just completed a Ph.D in Australian literature in England, and has, as a consequence, worked in an environment where only the smallest number of people are even vaguely aware of or interested in the things that have been amongst my main preoccupations, I read the recent forum on the ...

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