Titlebook: Australia and the Insular Imagination; Beaches, Borders, Bo Suvendrini Perera Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America In

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Girt by Sea,ald city scoured and sparkling for the occasion, and the afterglow of an opening Olympic ceremony that staged timeless Indigenous wisdom hand in hand with wide-eyed, ponytailed Anglo-Australia: on every count a winning combination for the new millennium.

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Introduction: Terra Australis Infirma,ll for new, contingent, geographies, and from ., the empty placeholder on western maps for the unknown expanse of the great South Land, I read this space of shifting coastlines and watery foundations as the site of an unattainable desire for insularity: ..

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The Gulliver Effect,deration,” warning that unless swift action was taken, “we may never be able to recall our lost national opportunities.” Mentally surveying the surrounding region he pronounced: “from the far east and the far west alike we behold menaces and antagonisms.”.

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Anthony J. Parsons,Athol D. Abrahamsstralia. Huntsman, who reproduces the cartoon in her book on beach culture, draws from it the reflection that racist extremism is inimical both to Australian society and to beachscape itself: could it be that “the ranting of fanatics loses its power to persuade as it is dissipated into the sky and the sea above and beyond?”.

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Alluvial Fan Processes and Formse, remaps Australia’s horizons? How do these imaginative geographies enable the . and contour the ., and . of power that enact and reproduce differential forms of sovereignty over national-regional space? These are the central questions I pursue in this chapter.