Individual producers, distributors, and exhibitors inflect key tropes of Australianness, like the bush myth, in different ways. |
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The film's grounding in a believable urban situation and its identifiable Australianness obviously contributed to its local success. |
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You refer to that particular quality of Australianness that you and your fellow writers of new wave were trying to explore. |
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What this all means is that the concept of Australia, and more so Australianness, is one with Anglo-Celtic culture. |
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He couldn't work out where his Britishness ended and where his Australianness began. |
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Coetzee has obviously immersed himself in his adoptive hometown, and the city comes alive in all its banal, suburban Australianness. |
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Holden has been owned by General Motors of the US since 1931 but has retained its image of Australianness to the end. |
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What will they make of a country that is so lacking in national consciousness that it is unable to produce a flag that proclaims its Australianness? |
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Celebrate our Australianness by showing our usual mistrustful, self-deprecating, egalitarian, good-natured detestation of all such symbols of overt self-glorification. |
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If, sometimes, the Australianness of the accent and the Irishness of the stories mismatches, it does not seem to matter: with only a few small changes you feel that many of these songs could fit into the Australian songbook. |
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