Clive James: keep tokenism out of literature

I wish I'd been at Australia House on Tuesday for the launch of 1464 page anthology The Literature Of Australia. No, not normally I wouldn't, but I gather from those who were there that Clive James rather set the cat among the pigeons by having a dig at the book's political correctness.

Presumably, as one of Britain's three most famous resident Aussies, James had been invited along to the bash - presided over by the Aussie High Commissioner - to utter platitudes about how bloody great Aussie l...