'... I still don't know what to say to the people who come to my house and ask, "so, have you read them all?"...' What you must remember is that these books were all written by *Australian* writers. And most of *these* were the Collected Speeches of Paul Keating. (Little known republican rabble rouser whose sentiments are now - happily - passing out of favour with his compatriots.) Scottie B.