Transcription of Week 2 – National Identity - ABC
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CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIA. 2. National Identity Sara Cousins From the Monash University National Centre for Australian Studies course, developed with Open Learning Australia In this, the second week of the course, Sara Cousins asks: What does it mean to be Australian in a multicultural society? Is there an elusive quality, a National Identity ', which binds us all as Australians? And what about the Australian way of life'? Does it still reflect the traditional virtues of egalitarianism, classlessness, a fair go', stoicism and mateship? Sara Cousins is a research fellow with the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. What does it mean to be Australian? National symbols and places Terra Nullius The Australian Type'. The Australian Way of Life'. Post-nationalist Australia?
With the cessation of transportation, the gold rushes of the 1850s and the influx of free settlers, a view of the ‘born colonist’ emerged.
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