John Lepper closes his two-volume, 130-year examination in 1914 here. He exposes the colonial creation myth - unused resources made productive by sturdy independent settlers who love the Crown and live in places of harmony and progress. The myth was designed, Lepper writes, because no-one wanted to frighten London's risk-averse lenders into raising interest rates on governments' debts. The Antipodean idea of order was to maintain the supply of money at low interest rates.