Despite the fact that all of the Australians in my acquaintance seem fixated on the seabreeze, which strikes me as a notably emasculine cocktail (me, I blame Garth Nix, who seems to be the instigator here), they do seem to know a thing or two about space opera. Jonathan Strahan and Sean Williams weigh in on the subject in this piece, and both have clever things to say. (And Sean even gets a plug in for Cenotaxis, to boot.) Go check it out, won't you?