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² Under Whitlam's government, Australia condemned US bombing of North Vietnam and recognized China, which Felix claims “caused Nixon to order the CIA review of US policy towards Australia” (136). Felix also believes that Australians were blind to CIA subversion of the Whitlam government because they remained grateful for US intervention in World War II.

³ Evans, Raymond and Donegan, Jacqui, “The Battle of Brisbane,” Politics and Culture, 4 (2004)Google Scholar, at http://politicsandculture.org/2010/08/10/the-battle-of-brisbane-by-raymond-evans-and-jacqui-donegan-2, accessed 6 Feb. 2017.

⁴ Amnesia’s Brownout Strangler is also based on a historical case: American soldier Edward Leonski assaulted and murdered three Australian women in Melbourne during 1942. Whereas Carey's Willenski is murdered by Australian prisoners, Leonski was hanged by the United States after a military trial – another example of the US power in and over Australia that Felix critiques. See Barry Everingham, “US Response to Evil of Brownout Strangler,” The Australian, 31 March 2007, at www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/us-response-to-evil-of-brownout-strangler/story-e6frg6so-1111113255749, accessed 6 Feb. 2017.

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¹⁰ Hurley quoted in Saunders, 180.

¹¹ March 1942 US Army report and MacArthur both quoted in Saunders, 182, 184.

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¹⁸ Amnesia is thus commensurate with Giles's reading of Carey's career up to The Chemistry of Tears (2012) as exhibiting the author's “understanding of transnationalism as a contrarian phenomenon … Carey has a keenly developed understanding of how national territories intersect with global systems.” Giles, Antipodean America, 442–43.