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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... outlook , we may take it that the feeling of eman- cipists and colonial - born people was affected not less strongly . Up to 1851 in the mother colony of New South Wales proper ( then including Queensland ) this broad group of people ...
... outlook , we may take it that the feeling of eman- cipists and colonial - born people was affected not less strongly . Up to 1851 in the mother colony of New South Wales proper ( then including Queensland ) this broad group of people ...
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... outlook of colonial working people was very strongly influenced by that of the con- victs . It is now clear that ... outlook was more complex and more important . We saw in the last chapter that what was new in this outlook tended to ...
... outlook of colonial working people was very strongly influenced by that of the con- victs . It is now clear that ... outlook was more complex and more important . We saw in the last chapter that what was new in this outlook tended to ...
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... outlook was vastly accelerated by two events . One was the birth and rapid growth of the industrial trade union movement , the other the somewhat belated discovery of the bushman by accredited literary men . The new type of militant ...
... outlook was vastly accelerated by two events . One was the birth and rapid growth of the industrial trade union movement , the other the somewhat belated discovery of the bushman by accredited literary men . The new type of militant ...
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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