John Dixon (died 1999) was an Australian screenwriter and director best known for his association with Geoff Burrowes.
Dixon was a friend of Phillip Adams who described him as such: All the years I knew him John talked about Australia with a passion that, sadly, sounds increasingly anachronistic.
But he wasn't all that interested in multiculturalism, preferring to celebrate a multi-ethnic Australia where people would sign up for the local set of values which he saw as an amalgam of humour and high-mindedness, of democratic spirit and egalitarianism.
There's a scene in The Goons where the famous Eccles arrives in London in the middle of summer, surrounded by his own personal snow storm, which enables him to drive his huskies through Trafalgar Square.
While it wasn't conscious or calculated, wherever he went and whatever he was doing, he brought the whole Dorothea Mackellar, Banjo Paterson, Chips Rafferty, Henry Lawson package with him.