McGrath, Ann2017-04-24McGrath, A. “Sexuality and Australian identities”. In Creating Australia: Changing Australian History, edited by Hudson, W. and Boldron, G., 39-51. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1997.9781863735605http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116171Stories of nation and national types grew from, reacted to and existed in opposition to Australia's lived sexual history. In their search for a singular, historically based identity, the legend-makers hunted archetypes which appealed to them as white men, and which reinforced hegemonic national ideals. But it was not just a convenient blindness which made sexuality, gender and race their most obvious omissions. Rather, these were the troublesome instruments which split the nation into multiple and plural identities.13 pagesapplication/pdf© The Author(s)Aboriginal History1997