I love travel: Clues from the primal ooze

Australians are known to be a nation of travellers. Hyper-aware of inhabiting the space of the 'antipodes' in relation to Britain and Europe, the nation emerged into nationhood with the understanding that the country's identity would be formed in relation to those cultures that were more familiar and which, regrettably, expensively, time-demandingly, lay north of the equator.