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
... up and struck me squarely in the face . . . . A free fight ensued , in which the crowd exerted all its power to show the respect in which it held the representatives of Her Gracious Majesty . The battle was shortly ... UP THE COUNTRY ' 73.
... up and struck me squarely in the face . . . . A free fight ensued , in which the crowd exerted all its power to show the respect in which it held the representatives of Her Gracious Majesty . The battle was shortly ... UP THE COUNTRY ' 73.
Page 114
... up - country life . Read , who spent some months on the Turon diggings in their first year when a very high ... country towns , it may be said to have brought the bush- men into closer touch with organized religion , but this was a long ...
... up - country life . Read , who spent some months on the Turon diggings in their first year when a very high ... country towns , it may be said to have brought the bush- men into closer touch with organized religion , but this was a long ...
Page 196
... up - country life directly they tended to romanticize it , looking back on it as something which had passed or was passing . However , while all these changes tended to end the conditions which had produced the old up - country ethos ...
... up - country life directly they tended to romanticize it , looking back on it as something which had passed or was passing . However , while all these changes tended to end the conditions which had produced the old up - country ethos ...
Contents
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
THE BUSHMAN COMES OF AGE | 167 |
APOTHEOSIS OF THE NOMAD TRIBE | 192 |
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