The Australian Legend"This book attempts to trace the historical origins and development of the Australian legend or national mystique. It argues that a specifically Australian outlook grew up first and most clearly among the bush workers in the Australian pastoral industry, and that this group has had an influence, completely disproportionate to its numerical and economic strength, on the attitudes of the whole Australian community."--Foreword |
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Page 110
... Aborigines , etc. , 4th ed . , Sydney 1948 , pp . 101-24 . 49 23 March 1840. ' Native pox ' . The irony was presumably unconscious . cp . ' Spanish pox ' , ' the French disease ' , ' un cap anglais ' , etc. There were , of course ...
... Aborigines , etc. , 4th ed . , Sydney 1948 , pp . 101-24 . 49 23 March 1840. ' Native pox ' . The irony was presumably unconscious . cp . ' Spanish pox ' , ' the French disease ' , ' un cap anglais ' , etc. There were , of course ...
Page 152
... Aborigines . At fifteen he had accumulated a herd of twenty ' weaners ' as wages from friendly stockmen . He married a daughter of John Walsh , ' a Tipperary man ' , who owned Wheogo Station in the Weddin Mountains , and thus became a ...
... Aborigines . At fifteen he had accumulated a herd of twenty ' weaners ' as wages from friendly stockmen . He married a daughter of John Walsh , ' a Tipperary man ' , who owned Wheogo Station in the Weddin Mountains , and thus became a ...
Page 201
... Aborigine was his master and mentor . There is , of course , overwhelming evidence that the usual overt attitude to the Aborigines continued to be almost as brutal and contemptuous at the end of the nineteenth century as it had been ...
... Aborigine was his master and mentor . There is , of course , overwhelming evidence that the usual overt attitude to the Aborigines continued to be almost as brutal and contemptuous at the end of the nineteenth century as it had been ...
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