Big Australian Stories need to be told

Mark Seymour (ex Hunters and Collectors), composer for and performer in new musical play, “Dust” (about asbestos) says “I’m interested in the big Australian stories. They need to be told.”  On the other hand, Karl Van Dyke from Macquarie University reflects on national beliefs when discussing that the Romans believed themselves direct descendants of the Trojans and twins Romulus and Remus, suckled by a wolf in the hills around Rome, “There is no truth in national myths. We are what we think we are.” [“Making Dust” Artscape, ABC TV1, 26 November 2013; Karl Van Dyke talk on “Roman Gardens” at the Australian National Botanic Gardens Canberra, 28 November 2013]