The Australian LegendThis book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life. |
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Page vii
... writes that ' More needs to be known about the middle classes and the non- Labor parties ' , all Australian historians may agree and applaud- if he means that more needs to be known about these things per se and for the purpose of ...
... writes that ' More needs to be known about the middle classes and the non- Labor parties ' , all Australian historians may agree and applaud- if he means that more needs to be known about these things per se and for the purpose of ...
Page 74
... writes , as though it were the usual thing , of a large group of stockmen who were nearly all ex - convicts , and Hay- garth testifies to the skill and prestige of native - born stockmen . Of cattle - mustering he writes : ... 6 ... our ...
... writes , as though it were the usual thing , of a large group of stockmen who were nearly all ex - convicts , and Hay- garth testifies to the skill and prestige of native - born stockmen . Of cattle - mustering he writes : ... 6 ... our ...
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... writes : The bush still sets the standard of personal efficiency even in the Australian cities . The bushman is the hero of the Australian boy ; the arts of bush life are his ambition ; his most cherished holidays are those spent with ...
... writes : The bush still sets the standard of personal efficiency even in the Australian cities . The bushman is the hero of the Australian boy ; the arts of bush life are his ambition ; his most cherished holidays are those spent with ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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A. B. Paterson Aborigines American attitude Australian national ballads become Ben Hall Britain British Bulletin bullock-drivers bush-workers bushmen bushrangers cabbage-tree hat cattle chum collectivist colonists colony contemporary criminals Currency Lad Diemen's Land diggers diggings districts Donahoo early economic emancipists Emigrant England English ethos fact feeling felt free immigrants frontier frontiersman Furphy Gold Rush goldfields Harris History influence interior Irish Jack John labour later least less Library of Victoria living London manners masters mates mateship Melbourne middle-class native native-born Ned Kelly never nineteenth century noble savage nomad tribe Norfolk Island old hands outback outlook pastoral workers Paterson perhaps period police political popular population prisoners Queensland sentiment Settlers and Convicts shearers shearing sheep shepherd social society South Wales squatters stanza station swagman Sydney tended tion tradition tralia Transportation Turner typical up-country Van Diemen's Land Victoria working-class writes wrote