Australian Left Review

Article Title

The Nation - Be In It

Authors

Collin Mercer

Abstract

Thus the Australian Bicentennial Authority (ABA) Fact sheet on 15 December last. Pitched somewhere between the schoolmasterly and the "Life, be in it" modes, the language of the ABA 's publications, especially Bicentenary 88 (the newsletter of the ABA) and the Bush Telegraph (a tabloid publicising the development and progress of the planning of the Bicentennial travelling Exhibition) is carefully tailored in its emphases on participation, consensus, enjoyment and learning.