And what does YouTube say?

A slight diversion now....

One of the advantages of a blog project is that you can post things as they occur to you. I thought before engaging in some more reference analysis, I might take a quick side trip into YouTube, to see what kinds of things came up when I typed in "Australian" identity.  Another benefit of the blog, is that I can then post these links directly.

This is quite interesting, particularly the reference to language and accent.  Also there is reference to humour and sport.





This is another representation of "Australian" identity and probably encapsulates, via images, some of the more standard, mainstream views (?) perhaps of what it means to be Australian.  So some of the imagery presented in this clip below, probably comes closer to some of the broadstroke (or cliched) views of how "Australian" identity can be represented.  Images like the bush and sport are included as well as references to 'diggers' in the song that plays over the images.