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 73
... government men who made up the overwhelming majority of the pastoral labour force , were conscripted to the up - country life . From 1827 onwards government administrative policy consciously aimed at directing convict labour to the ...
... government men who made up the overwhelming majority of the pastoral labour force , were conscripted to the up - country life . From 1827 onwards government administrative policy consciously aimed at directing convict labour to the ...
Page 172
... Government were little better than aiders and abettors of bushranging , Parkes was fairly successful in confining the debate to the constitutional issue of whether or not it was proper for a government to advise the Governor on the ...
... Government were little better than aiders and abettors of bushranging , Parkes was fairly successful in confining the debate to the constitutional issue of whether or not it was proper for a government to advise the Governor on the ...
Page 225
... Government or rather Government by Contradiction . A new Parliamentary System , -one House to be elected by consti- tuencies as at present ; the other to be chosen by the whole country voting as one Constituency . A Universal System of ...
... Government or rather Government by Contradiction . A new Parliamentary System , -one House to be elected by consti- tuencies as at present ; the other to be chosen by the whole country voting as one Constituency . A Universal System of ...
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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 less Library of Victoria living London 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 Plains 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 University up-country Van Diemen's Land Victoria working-class writes wrote