But it didn’t take long to find out what should have been obvious from the start (I was very young at the time): there were others, native-born Australians, who were roughly in the same predicament and who had the same concerns, often in a much more developed form. They included some distinguished and interesting men: Sir John Latham (a former chief justice of the Australian High Court); John Kerr QC (later to be the governor-general who dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in controversial circumstances); James McAuley (one of Australia’s best poets, and co-perpetrator of the famous anti-modernist Ern Malley hoax); Peter Coleman (writer and editor and politician-to-be, who would one day write the history of the Congress for Cultural Freedom); Donald Horne (author, later, of The Lucky Country); and a bunch of academics including Richard Spann, Doug McCallum and David Armstrong.