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In \u003ci\u003eMade in England\u003c/i\u003e, David Malouf looks at Australiaâs bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasnât the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the Westminster system, as the irreducible ground on which any Australian achievement is based. Britain has always been the tolerant parent, and an older Australia could be both intensely patriotic and see itself as what it was, a transplan- tation of Britain. This relationship did not exclude America but it made for a sometimes complicated threesome of nations. This is a brilliant, deeply meditated essay by one of our finest writers about the traditions that shaped Australia and which connect it to one of the mightier traditions in world history.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nâ... \u003ci\u003eMade in England\u003c/i\u003e is ... a case of one of Australiaâs most eminent novelists allowing himself to imagine, and by imagining to analyse, the hopes and glories, once and future, that were part of this new Britannia.â âPeter Craven, Introduction\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nâAny argument for [the republic] based on the need to make a final break with Britain will fail.â âDavid Malouf, \u003ci\u003eMade in England\u003c/i\u003e |
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