This week's Times Literary Supplement, in London, carries a review of James Franklin's Sydney-centric history of Australian philosophy, Corrupting the Youth. The reviewer is the Melbourne-trained philosopher David Oderberg. It includes this amusing line, in the middle of discussion about the sexual adventurism of both John Anderson and Sydney Orr -

Reading his lengthy book, however, one comes away with the - possibly accurate - impression that the history of philosophy in Australia is a history of one affair after the other (in the amorous and political senses).