'I hope that a wide sphere of influence awaits "Australia". It comes at an opportune time, for the war has made men and women think much and think hard ... the people are just now in the temper to assert themselves politically, socially, industrially. And, if they are to move along safe lines, it was never more necessary than it is now that the public mind should be leavened by Catholic principles. Therein lies the opportunity of "Australia." '
Source: Daniel Mannix, ['Foreword'],
Australia, vol. 1 no. 1 (7 November 1917): [1]
