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 16
... Currency Lads tended to align themselves with the emancipist class rather than with the more respectable of the free immigrants.3 If we take the Currency population as having more in common , socially and traditionally , with the ...
... Currency Lads tended to align themselves with the emancipist class rather than with the more respectable of the free immigrants.3 If we take the Currency population as having more in common , socially and traditionally , with the ...
Page 62
... Currency Lads call it abroad and this is our home.'27 This story , however , probably shows a greater degree of ... Currency Lad , Charlie , are driving some cattle along a bush track when they see a young magistrate and two mounted ...
... Currency Lads call it abroad and this is our home.'27 This story , however , probably shows a greater degree of ... Currency Lad , Charlie , are driving some cattle along a bush track when they see a young magistrate and two mounted ...
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... Currency Lads felt it proper to demonstrate their heritage . This peculiarly Australian form of hooliganism was closely associated with another widely noticed trait , the precocity of the native - born youth . Most writers ascribed the ...
... Currency Lads felt it proper to demonstrate their heritage . This peculiarly Australian form of hooliganism was closely associated with another widely noticed trait , the precocity of the native - born youth . Most writers ascribed the ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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