Canon panel on Magic Casements

Yes, Magic Casements was fun, well organised, great to catch up with people, blah, blah. (and add gillpolack - it's a pity I missed her panel) I did miss the most important part - the dinner afterwards - as murasaki_1966 was sick with a middle ear infection. But as the Canon panel was so uncontroversial, I thought I'd paste the questions I'd buried deep within the comments of chrisbarnes's LJ:

Is David Lindsay's "Voyage to Arcturus" still considered canon even though nobody seems to talk about the book anymore (it often shows up in Important SF lists, but I've heard little about it and don't know anyone who's actually read it)?

And - if the canon is meant to representative of the breadth of SF (i.e. what you need to read to get an understanding of the range of the genre) should it have included Star Wars novels - even those written by Sean Williams?

But here's an obvious question we all kind of missed, expect for a mutual back-slapping session between Terry Dowling and Margo Lanagan:

What Australian authors should be in the canon?

Quick answer - Greg Egan, Terry, possibly A Bertram Chandler - any others?

(I'll leave my Octavia Butler question buried in Chris's comments, it's a little cheeky.)

Another fragment of my youth vanishes into the ether

Dan Curtis has died.

for those philistines amongst you who don't know who he is - he directed the first two Night Stalker telemovies.

And the Trilogy of Terror telemovie with the infamous Zuni doll.

[fixed up to quench ferkster's ire]