Historical information

Discusses the reasons for Sydney's and Melbourne's new airports. Discusses the transformation from picturesque landscape to a growth of unordered supplementary structures surrounding airports (motels, sheds, storage rooms, petrol stations, shopping mall). Boyd predicts this "shanty town" image will only get worse, and critiques the image of Australia first presented to international visitors.

Significance

Original manuscript of an article published in "The Sunday Australian", 27.06.1971

Physical description

Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 8 pages

Inscriptions & markings

Numbered in 13 paragraphs