The Australian LegendThis book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life. |
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Page 98
... , are taken from them ; and the diseases of the white man , extended without remorse , destroy and daily diminish the race of Aborigines as the squatter advances . Sel- dom , indeed , . . . is the face 98 THE AUSTRALIAN LEGEND.
... , are taken from them ; and the diseases of the white man , extended without remorse , destroy and daily diminish the race of Aborigines as the squatter advances . Sel- dom , indeed , . . . is the face 98 THE AUSTRALIAN LEGEND.
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 164
... Aborigines were more at home in the bush and these , when they took service with the police as black - trackers , the bushrangers feared and hated accordingly . Thus to the pastoral workers , to the free - selectors , to lower - class ...
... Aborigines were more at home in the bush and these , when they took service with the police as black - trackers , the bushrangers feared and hated accordingly . Thus to the pastoral workers , to the free - selectors , to lower - class ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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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 least less Library of Victoria living London manners 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 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 up-country Van Diemen's Land Victoria working-class writes wrote