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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... Diemen's Land . At the end of the following year , 1831 , the Judge Advocate noticed : Great visitings among the neighbouring servants ; seven or eight of them patrolling about ; and all this is sure to end in drunkenness and mischief ...
... Diemen's Land . At the end of the following year , 1831 , the Judge Advocate noticed : Great visitings among the neighbouring servants ; seven or eight of them patrolling about ; and all this is sure to end in drunkenness and mischief ...
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... Diemen's Land ' , this song was perhaps the most popular and typical of all transporta- tion ballads ; but we may take as an example ' Adieu to Old Eng- land ' which , though hardly less typical , is much less well known . It's ' Come ...
... Diemen's Land ' , this song was perhaps the most popular and typical of all transporta- tion ballads ; but we may take as an example ' Adieu to Old Eng- land ' which , though hardly less typical , is much less well known . It's ' Come ...
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... Diemen's Land between 1824 and about 1840 . Giving evidence to the New South Wales Legislative Council's Select Committee on Immigration in 1838 , the Colonial Secretary , Alexander Macleay , stated : ' All the convicts transported from ...
... Diemen's Land between 1824 and about 1840 . Giving evidence to the New South Wales Legislative Council's Select Committee on Immigration in 1838 , the Colonial Secretary , Alexander Macleay , stated : ' All the convicts transported from ...
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