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AUSTRALIAN artists and most Australian academics incline as a matter of course to the left in their political stance. They seem convinced that this stance guarantees their art and their scholarship the high ground of moral superiority. They see themselves as a political opposition with a conscience, standing up fearlessly for the downtrodden, the poor, the rejects and the outcasts against a heartless, conservative government. This conservative government, so their mantra runs, represents the ruthless interests of capitalist big business and the elitist ruling classes. The duty of the artists and the academics is to highlight the flaws and the hidden prejudices of the ...