Baylis - Smith

The emergence of nations, groups of people who recognize each other as sharing a common identity, with a focus on a homeland (Baylis & Smith 2001: 358), has come to exercise a central position in modern political thought. Nationalism, a very highly emotional and unpredictable phenomenon, derived from the nation's power and rests on the recognition that freedom is the enforceable right of all peoples and, as such, national societies, therefore, are of right entitled to determine their own directions and purposes (Romulo 1964: 22).

The dominant ideology that colonised Terra Australis

Works of this time were biased toward a masculine discourse and very few woman are depicted in the scenes from this period and if they are, they are only viewed in a passive sense, as an onlooker to the hard work that is being completed. (Adams, 2004) Tom Robert's (1856-1931) works are predominantly of outback New South Wales and Tasmania. In nearly all of his works, he had a sense of grandeur, using size and placement to instil a sense of conquering, of hard work, one of pride and nationalism, a harsh landscape conquered.