"The point of departure for the argument of this article is a critical comparison of post-war American and Australian New Journalism. While the American phenomenon is well documented (Wolfe 1973; Hellman 1981), there has been little real investigation of the New Journalism in post-war Australian media, to the point where one may be forgiven for questioning whether such a local phenomenon existed at all. Only Donald Horn, in Time of Hope (1980), makes any reference to its existence in Australia after 1965 and, even then, in a cursory manner. Consequently, there has been neither a sustained analysis of overseas influence nor of those traditions which contributed to its emergence. Using a brief case study, this analysis calls into question both the assumptions of its local non-existence and of unmediated American influence on local journalists."--paragraph 1.