Playlist: texts read & music played
1. Voices in the Wind, from Spirit Alive, Christian Benton
2. George Crabbe, ‘The Borough’
3. Mary Gilmore, ‘Old Botany Bay’
4. Instructions form King George III’s Government to Governor Phillip
5. John Dunmore Lang, ‘Lachlan Macquarie, Esquire, Governor’
6. Bill Bryson, from ‘Down Under’
7. Rossini, ‘The Thieving Magpie’ (overture)
8. Percy Grainger, ‘English Country Gardens’
9. Malcolm Williamson, ‘Ships’ (Prelude no. 1)
10. Charles Conder, ‘Departure of the Orient’
11. D.H.Lawrence, from ‘Kangaroo’
12. Les Murray, ‘Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose’
13. Banjo Paterson (1902)
14. Rudyard Kipling (1891)
15. Mark Twain (1897)
16. Joseph Conrad (1906)
17. Arthur Conan-Doyle (1921)
18. Judith Wright-McKinney (1973)
19. Clive James (1980)
20. Robert Hughes (1987)
21. Germaine Greer(1988)
22. Peter Corris (1991)
23. Barry Humphries (1991)
24. Archie Roach, ‘Weeping in the Forest’
25. T.S. Eliot, ‘This is the way the world ends….’
26. Tom Roberts, ‘Happy Box Hill’
27. Arthur Streeton,’The Yarra Valley’
28. Impression Exhibition Catalogue, Melbourne, Aug 1889
29. Robert Hughes, ‘The Shock of the New’
30. Eric Bogle, ‘Oh I hate wogs!’
31. BBC Radio 3, ‘The Aboriginal Cricket Tour to England, 1868’
32. Kylie Minogue, ‘I Should be so Happy’