Given Australia s status as an (unfinished) colonial project of the British Empire, the basic institutions that were installed in its so-called empty landscape derive from a value-laden framework borne out of industrialization, colonialism, the consolidation of the national statist system and democracy all entities imbued with British Enlightenment principles and thinking. Modernity in Australia has thus been constituted by the importation, assumption and triumph of the Western mind materially, psychologically, culturally, socio-legally and cartographically. Inside Australian Culture:...

Given Australia s status as an (unfinished) colonial project of the British Empire, the basic institutions that were installed in its so-called empty landscape derive from a value-laden framework borne out of industrialization, colonialism, the consolidation of the national statist system and democracy all entities imbued with British Enlightenment principles and thinking. Modernity in Australia has thus been constituted by the importation, assumption and triumph of the Western mind materially, psychologically, culturally, socio-legally and cartographically. Inside Australian Culture:...