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Mapping Australian Postcolonial Landscapes: From Resistance to Reconciliation?

From the earliest point of the white invasion ofAustralia the process of colonisation hasbeeninextricably interwoven with anattempt to deny oreraseanysigns of Indigenous? presencein the landscape. This article examines the manner in which the meanings accorded to space and place in post-colonial Australia are constructed. As Ashcroft et al (1997: 353) put it: 'Place and displacement are crucial features of the postcolonial discourse.' Importantly they emphasise the fact that the term place is not merely synonymous with landscape. There are a host of meanings that can be attributed to the writing of the stories of place in Australia. From the outset it should be noted that the experience of the settler societies can be distinguished from other colonial nations such asIndia orJamaica, inthat thecolonisers haveremained, there hasbeen no return to the metropolitan centre. A consequence of the enduring presence of the colonisers is the fact that there remains disquietude, a tension between those who have been displaced and those who have replaced them. In seeking to explain how non-Indigenous Australians have sought to reconcile the erasure of Indigenous Australians from the Australian landscape and history W E Stanner, the eminent anthropologist, reflected that it is: