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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... living for the better , or to rest in any way from his hard and laborious employment . . .2 At least in the earliest pioneering stage , before the squatter's wife arrived to define more rigidly the barrier between ' the house ' and ...
... living for the better , or to rest in any way from his hard and laborious employment . . .2 At least in the earliest pioneering stage , before the squatter's wife arrived to define more rigidly the barrier between ' the house ' and ...
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... living for the first time as a free man should . The extent to which , in comparison with his English fellows , he tended to glory insultingly in his new - found confidence was a measure of his previous degradation . As John Sidney ...
... living for the first time as a free man should . The extent to which , in comparison with his English fellows , he tended to glory insultingly in his new - found confidence was a measure of his previous degradation . As John Sidney ...
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... living far away , When I told of Nocoleche boys , and how we gained the day . In the crowd someone must do it , -speak for those shearing knights- , I'm black - balled at Nocoleche ' cause I spoke up for our rights , But don't think his ...
... living far away , When I told of Nocoleche boys , and how we gained the day . In the crowd someone must do it , -speak for those shearing knights- , I'm black - balled at Nocoleche ' cause I spoke up for our rights , But don't think his ...
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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