“Australian culture is for the most part deeply democratic, and joyously so as well. It is no longer “provincial”, a distant and nervous response to norms generated in imperial centres. It is the result of a bloodless and slow-developing social revolution conducted over 40 years as a small society grew larger and immeasurably more complex, shook off its sense of derivative Englishness and its fear of American domination, and learned to trust its own talents.” – The Guardian 09/18/00