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Author's abstract: This essay explores linkages between architecture and memory in the context of Australia's penal-colonial past and postcolonial present. Examining how built spaces 'house' the past, the essay reads the carceral architecture in Peter Carey's Illywhacker as a counter-memory, a haunting reminder that the edifice of Australia has been built on (cryptic) lies
