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The article highlights the ways in which sexual identity is performed, represented and exhibited in Australian writing and suggests connections between issues of individual identity and the larger question of Australian national identity. Focussing on a spectrum of Australian writing, Pons analyses the literary strategies of this large and growing corpus and its gender-specific variations.