As World War Two drew to a close, left-wing and liberal Australians artists and writers began to consciously shape a distinctive Australian culture.
While this cultural period is commonly remembered for its reinvention of Australian folk traditions and emphasis on a supposedly egalitarian bushman masculinity, there was also a significant anti-racist counter- current in Australian cultural production.
This talk will look at the influence of Aboriginal activism, global decolonisation and Jewish antifascism in shaping these cultural threads.
