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The integrative device for the unit is the idea that all texts are selective.
In australian texts there is an idea of what it means to be Australian. This/these representations can be explicit or implicit. There is a traditional, dominant view encoded in texts like bush ballads and the words of writers like A.B Patterson. These views/representations romanticize "the bush" setting up a binary opposition between it and the town.
This is a view/representation that also privileges certain masculine qualities and marginalises/ silences other groups/ways of viewing issues.
However, there is an increasing number of contending voices which offer alternative views of what it means to be 'An Australian'.
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