, cultural unity and a programmatic effort to industrialize and institutionalize leisure activities were articulated at the highest levels of government.
One impact of World War II on Australia's mainstream culture appears to have been a growing tendency of the Anglo-Celtic culture of the country toward more formally coalescing around shared values and national or ethnic origins. Indeed, just after World War II a much-touted view was that Australia was "99% British" (Hugo passim). That sentiment, which does not appear to have been accurate and which remains a subject of controversy among observers of Australian culture (Khoo and Price passim), was seized upon by political leaders intent on finding a political organizing principle. While there is a strong view that postwar Australia was characteri
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