ABSTRACT
In previous chapters I emphasized aspects of the ‘people-among-themselves’ as a series of cultural and gender cleavages internal to the society. In this chapter, I turn my attention to those aspects which produce a sense of Australia as a national society among national societies and Australians as a national people. Given the ascendance of nations as bureaucratic, political, market and social forms of organization and popular identity in the twentieth century, nationally defined societies are the unexceptionable norm.
