AustLit

'In these times of racial tension, I sometimes find myself imagining the kind of book our current Prime Minister should read to begin escaping from his myopia about the present and amnesia about the past. I am referring, of course, to his stubbornly maintained innocence about the intrinsic nature of Australian race relations; his touching faith that somehow white mateship conquers all and his peculiar conclusion that those who expose racism in their research are somehow its instigators.' (Introduction)