News Headline
Fabled land or false narrative: what is the modern outback?
Source
Guardian (International Edition)
Publication Date
2021-05-17
The outback looms large in Australia’s collective mythology. For some it’s a fabled place of extreme beauty and harshness that forged the Australian character. But for others this is a false narrative – as the author Alexis Wright puts it, a story “Australia chose to tell itself and wanted to believe, about a land which had been stolen from Aboriginal people”.