Interesting observations from
The Guardian about how The Australian Matrix, specifically The Australian newspaper, is processing its dead.
As Eleanor Catton has discovered, if you cross The Myth then The Eye of Sauron looks at you and sends its Dark Riders! That's how McColloch's corpus, and corpse, need to be processed in this system.
In my opinion it's that McColloch showed the truth about power so needed to be hammered (those Masters of Rome books were really good for that.) Bryce Courtenay 'went native' in Australia, bonding with their national myth and reinforcing it. People who move around when young often do that.
And I'm still amused that Catton is sitting on her arse in the street- in my imagination a C19th West Coast street- mugged of her handbag containing her Booker Prize and she's saying "The local population can take ownership in a way that is strangely proprietal!"
Unfortunately, The Guardian are saying its about gender. But I'm quite sure it's not about men and woman but pro-state and anti-state.