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Tarnawski responds to Rosemary Neill's 'Australia Neglecting Its Own Writers'. Tarnawski argues that Australian literature must be taught not only at tertiary level, but also at primary and secondary level.
Responding to Rosemary Neill's 'Australia Neglecting Its Own Writers', Hergenhan suggests: 'The decline of Australian literature teaching is part of the general neglect of literary studies taking place because of changing priorities.'
Miller argues: 'Myth and legend, what today we call story telling or ficition, and the grand modern discipline of academic history surely serve the same end, which is to enrich our understanding of ourselves and our realities.'