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Abduction 8, 29, 45, 61, 63, 67, 70, 94, Aboriginalism (Mishra) Index abduction 8, 29, 45, 61, 63, 67, 70, 94, amnesia 120, 124 301 —See also: erasure, forgetting Aboriginalism (Mishra) 19, 95 Anderson, Benedict 97, 99, 325 Aboriginality 19, 60, 71, 78, 157, 179, Anderson, Millicent 227; “Disobe- 281, 283 dience” 227, 229 aboriginalization 46 angelic, the female as 44, 47, 51, 262 Aboriginals, as hostile 251, 324 “Another Mysterious Disappearance” —See also: black trackers; half-castes; (Leontine Cooper) 146 landscape, Aboriginal knowledge of; anthropomorphism 251, 262, 279, 302, miscegenation; mysticism 304, 309 Ackland, Michael 277, 278, 281, 282 anti-conquest 41, 52, 66, 69, 70, 92, 94, Acolyte, The (Thea Astley) 184, 186 100, 132, 152, 173, 183, 231, 252, 271, Adam Bede (George Eliot) 30 272, 276, 281, 283, 285, 287, 290, Adam–Smith, Patsy 21, 23, 24, 77, 103, 292, 302, 320, 326, 329, 331, 332 243, 245, 248, 252, 258 anti-individualism 119, 125, 142 adolescents, lost 5 anxiety 5, 10, 26, 32, 33, 34, 35, 43, 45, adults, lost xi, 3, 5, 6, 7, 14, 19, 25, 26, 97, 100, 105, 106, 107, 115, 116, 117, 27, 29, 30, 33, 45, 67, 120, 136, 146, 118, 120, 124, 130, 137, 139, 142, 159, 164, 188, 297, 308, 313 160, 161, 165, 168, 173, 175, 176, 177, 190 191 202 216 257 263 273 aestheticization 38 , , , , , , , 287 290 296 314 319 321 328 African American, as white construct 62 , , , , , , , 331 Alice 146, 174, 221, 254; “In 126 Memoriam: The Lost Children of ANZAC Day 15 Daylesford” 173 Appiah, Kwame Anthony 308 19 alienation 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 58, “Aquifer” (Tim Winton) – 81, 85, 88, 93, 104, 138, 153, 166, Ashcroft, Bill 289 191, 192, 195, 232, 255, 257, 265, 272, Ashcroft, Johnny “Little Boy Lost” 273, 285, 288, 290, 292, 294, 311, 247–48 312, 317 assimilation 57, 178, 179, 283, 285 “Allan the Little Greek” (Vasso Astley, Thea 6, 104, 111, 177, 183–88, Kalamaras) 163, 220, 221 238, 255, 259, 268–72; The Acolyte Allen, Margaret 161 184, 186; An Item from the Late News Altman, Dennis 125 186; Multiple Effects of Rainshadow 360 W HITE V ANISHING Z 185; Reaching Tin River 177, 183– 280, 298, 300, 309, 310, 316, 317, 88, 268, 298; Vanishing Points 6, 320 104, 111, 238, 255, 256, 269, 271 Ben–Messahel, Sahlia 318 “At Devlin’s Siding” (Barcroft Boake) Benterrak, Krim, Stephen Muecke & 30, 31 Paddy Roe 68, 69 Attwood, Bain 39, 325 Berger, John 18 “Australia” (John Farrell) 169 Bettelheim, Bruno 11 australianization 37 Betzien, Angela Children of the Black autobiography 222, 264, 265 Skirt 104 Bhabha, Homi K. 86, 109, 157, 158 “The Babes in the Bush” (Barcroft Bignell, Jonathan 14 Boake) 30, 31 “Billy Boy” (Mildred V. Campbell) 59, “The Babies in the Bush” (Henry Law- 144, 145 son) 23, 210, 211, 233 Birch, Tony 41, 252 Bacon, Francis 324 Bird, Carmel 291, 293; The Bluebird Baker, Richard 79, 239, 243, 246 Café 238, 275, 282–90 Bal, Mieke 72 black absence 59 ballads 6, 27, 32 Black Drive (Tasmania) 67 Balodis, Janis 5, 18, 104, 176, 177; The Black Line (Tasmania) 67, 68 Ghosts Trilogy 5, 104, 177, 188–99, black trackers 56, 71–86, 87, 88, 89, 292, 299; My Father’s Father (in 90, 93, 95, 191, 306, 332 Ghosts Trilogy) 189, 190; No Going “Blacktown” (Charles Tompson) 63–67, Back (in Ghosts Trilogy) 189; Too 71, 72, 76, 84, 314 Young for Ghosts (in Ghosts Trilogy) Bleeker, Maaike 189 176 189 190 194 , , , Bliss, Carolyn 264 208 250 270 Barnes, John , , Blue Mountains 279 205 210 212 223 224 279 barriers , , , , , , Bluebird Café, The (Carmel Bird) 238, 297 275, 282–90 14 Barthes, Roland Blunt, Alison, & Cheryl McEwan 326 122 Bartrop, Paul R. Boake, Barcroft 30, 31, 32, 33, 235, 106 114 115 bastardy , , 236, 241, 242; “At Devlin’s Siding” Baynton, Barbara Human Toll 6; 30, 31; “The Babes in the Bush” 30, “Scrammy ’And” 27 31; “From the Far West” 30, 31; BBC radio, as buffer against chaos 312, “Kelly’s Conversion” 235; Where the 313, 315 Dead Men Lie 30, 31, 235, 236, 242 Beckett, Jeremy 60 Boldrewood, Rolf 85, 86, 93, 208; The belonging 5, 17, 34, 36, 42, 43, 58, 134, Miner’s Right: A Tale of the 181, 188, 192, 193, 195, 196, 197, 198, Goldfields 81, 82, 83, 84 199, 216, 257, 264, 273, 276, 278, Bolton, Geoffrey 68 .
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