I went to England in the '70s and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

Without tradition art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation it is a corpse.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.