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Annotations
1. This is a reference to the problem of Timorese fisherman poaching in Australian territorial waters.
2. A reference to the death of over 200,000 soldiers on the beach at Gallipoli (which is in Turkey, not the Middle East) in the first World War. It is widely believed that Australians accounted for the majority of these deaths, but in fact, this is not the case - 8,700 Australian soldiers died (and 60,000 Australian lives were lost in the war as a whole). Britain and France suffered most of the losses, with India and New Zealand involved as well.
3. This is Nick Cave's opening scream to the Birthday Party song 'Sonny's Burning' on the Bad Seed EP. Birthday Party / Nick Cave references are also made in Morrison Hostel and Existentialtism.
4. Norman May is an Australian sports commentator.
6. Norman Mailer is a novelist, essayist, and filmmaker, whose work has sparked both controversy and applause.
6. This is a theme explored in Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey's The Tyranny of Distance, St Martins, 1968.
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