Abstract Expression, 11, 34, 81

Actaeon, 169

Adelaide, 2–4, 5, 8, 12, 110–125, 136, 139–140, 142–145, 180, 185, 199

Adorno, Theodor, 22

Africa, 38, 42–59, 65–6, 72–73, 96, 98, 145

The African Queen, 141

Amen, R.G., 4, 9, 128, 136, 142

Anderson, John, 196–197

Andromeda, 80, 100

Arakawa, Shusaku, 11, 12

Artemis, 169

Atlantis, 71, 80

Aurelius, Marcus, 193

Ayres Rock, 56, 88

Bacon, Francis, 14

Bail, Murray: “ABC,” 19–24; “Albie,” 7–8; Camouflage; “Camouflage,” 142–147; Contemporary Portraits and Other Stories; “Cul-de-Sac (Uncompleted),” 27–28; “The Dog Show,” 29; “The Drover’s Wife,” 29–30; Eucalyptus; Holden’s Performance; Homesickness;, 158, 142–151, 222, 222, 5, 13–14, 18–30, 44–45, 2, 19, 33, 142, 153–188, 193–194, 211, 221, 223, 3, 5, 7, 17, 103–142, 147, 155, 165, 189, 204, 222, 10–11, 13, 15, 27, 31–32, 35–101, 106, 110, 113–114, 118, 121, 123, 131, 138, 145, 147, 152, 158, 180, 187, 194, 210

Murray Bail: “Home Ownership,” 5; “Huebler,” 23–26; “I Spend My Days Slowly,” 6; “Life of the Party,” 9; The Pages; “Paradise,” 28; “The Partitions,” 11;“Portrait of Electricity,” 11; “A Rough Measurement of the Yard,” 6–8 ; “The Seduction of My Sister,” 8; “Still Life with Lemons,” 6–8; “Zoellner’s Definition,” 26 , 222, 26, 2, 6, 41–42, 142, 152, 155–156, 187–219, 223, 114, 29, 26, 28, 146–152, 223, 17

Bauhaus, 53

Bernhard, Thomas, 15

Brecht, Bertolt, 19

Bhabha, Honi, 52, 145

Blake, William, 14, 24, 158

Borges, Jorge Luis, 15, 38

Boyd, Arthur, 31

Boyle, Robert, 71

Brennan, Christopher, 195

Brisbane, 5

Burke and Wills, 118

Burton, Richard Francis; The Arabian Nights, 10, 49, 63–64, 67–68, 77, 90, 174, 183

Burton, Robert, 100

Calvino, Italo, 15, 111, 152

Canberra, 3, 111, 136, 142, 187

Casanova, Giacomo, 63

Cézanne, Paul, 23, 33, 153–155

Churchill, Winston, 53, 126, 130, 136–137

Colonel Light, 112, 140