As I said in my statement, I think one of the issues the commemoration sought to tackle was the large level of ignorance about Australian history. Indicative of that was the competition on who our first prime minister was. That was one objective.
The second objective was to make the celebration about more than Sydney. Sydney, of course, is the birthplace of Australia, white Australia. The commemorations were deliberately fanned out across the country so that everybody and every community felt part of the process. That sense of nationhood and the sense of looking to the past with a view to the future were the two principal objectives.
The third was really what you'd call the nation-building projects. I've mentioned the railway between Darwin and Adelaide and some of the other big projects, which were designed to improve the sense of Australia as a nation. Australia, like Canada, has strong regional identities. People in different states have their own sense of what it means to be a Western Australian or a Queenslander. Drawing the country together through some of these projects and the different commemorations was a recurring thing throughout the year.