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 112
... Australia Per cent 1841 1851 Increase 1861 Per cent Increase N.S.W. 116,988 187,243 60 380,919 ( 350,860 ) 103 ( 87 ) Vic . 11,738 87,345 645 540,322 520 TABLE IX Increase of Native Born Population % of 1841 112 THE GOLD RUSH.
... Australia Per cent 1841 1851 Increase 1861 Per cent Increase N.S.W. 116,988 187,243 60 380,919 ( 350,860 ) 103 ( 87 ) Vic . 11,738 87,345 645 540,322 520 TABLE IX Increase of Native Born Population % of 1841 112 THE GOLD RUSH.
Page 128
... Gold Rush did not so much change as intensify the existing tradition . Contemporaries believed that this was partly because to the basic stuff of police force personnel - particularly vicious and venal old convicts despised by their ...
... Gold Rush did not so much change as intensify the existing tradition . Contemporaries believed that this was partly because to the basic stuff of police force personnel - particularly vicious and venal old convicts despised by their ...
Page 137
... Gold Rush remains to be noted . There can be little doubt that the average standard of educational attainment was much higher among the newcomers than it had been among the pastoral workers prior to the dis- coveries ... GOLD RUSH 137.
... Gold Rush remains to be noted . There can be little doubt that the average standard of educational attainment was much higher among the newcomers than it had been among the pastoral workers prior to the dis- coveries ... GOLD RUSH 137.
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
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