Sport has been a central part of the Australian experience since the c... Sport has been a central part of the Australian experience since the country was first colonised. Press reports of the endeavours of sportsmen and sportswomen played a fundamental role in the way that the developing country viewed and understood itself, a
Nationalism has been a pronounced phenomenon in the world since the be... Nationalism has been a pronounced phenomenon in the world since the beginning of the nineteenth century. At that time both liberal and non-liberal states were dominated by a mixture of intolerant nationalism, which throughout history has taken arguably ir