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Australian Identity 1930-1960 The period of 1940-1960 for the Australian people was one of vast change. Australia was still a very young country and rapid development was beginning to take its toll on the way in which Australians would be viewed on a global scale. As a country with so much industrial, international trade and resource potential, the image which beginning to become the face of Australians was inconsiderate to the people, land and history upon which Australia was founded. The growth and transformation of various myths in Australian history were vital for the Australian population to share a connection with their fellow peoples. On an international scale the recognition of Australian identity was not as widely embraced, and various artists recognized this and challenged the international communities to become familiar with the artists interpretations of Australia; the ‘independent’ nation. George Russell Drysdale was born in Bognor Regis, England on the 7th of February 1912 and died on the 29th of June 1981 in Sydney’s Westmead Hospital. Drysdale traveled to and from Australia numerous times over a fourteen year period finally settling as a border at Geelong Grammar school in 1923. The majority of c