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 205
... Bulletin , 14 September 1889 , p . 8 . 22 Mrs R. F. Roberts , ' Sarona ' , Coleraine , Victoria ( information given to Miss Margaret Kiddle ) . 23 cp . E. C. Buley , Australian Life in Town and Country , London 1905 , ch . 6 ; and James ...
... Bulletin , 14 September 1889 , p . 8 . 22 Mrs R. F. Roberts , ' Sarona ' , Coleraine , Victoria ( information given to Miss Margaret Kiddle ) . 23 cp . E. C. Buley , Australian Life in Town and Country , London 1905 , ch . 6 ; and James ...
Page 222
... Bulletin's birth in January 1880 until 1903. Yet for the first fourteen months of the paper's existence there was scarcely a sign of the ' outback ' writing with which its name later became almost synonymous . There was much verse of ...
... Bulletin's birth in January 1880 until 1903. Yet for the first fourteen months of the paper's existence there was scarcely a sign of the ' outback ' writing with which its name later became almost synonymous . There was much verse of ...
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... Bulletin's policies were thoroughly consistent with the political implications of up - country ideas . The points were apparently listed in some- thing approaching what was felt to be the order of their import- ance , most of the first ...
... Bulletin's policies were thoroughly consistent with the political implications of up - country ideas . The points were apparently listed in some- thing approaching what was felt to be the order of their import- ance , most of the first ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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