The Great Australian DreamThe Great Australian Dream of owning a suburban quarter-acre block furnished with a barbecue, hills-hoist and modest three-bedroom dwelling might seem quaint to people these days. The early articulation of the idea of the Great Australian Dream is often associated with Ray Lawler's 1955 play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. While Lawler did not use the term "Great Australian Dream", his play both documents and interrogates the Australian cultural ideal of the suburban family utopia of home ownership. At its heart, the Australian Dream has always been a democratic dream, yet one of a very practical nature. For all of its democratic ambition, the Great Australian Dream began as a dream of white people.