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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 26
Page 42
... Arrived Free . ' The number of emancipists given is certainly too small , as it was also in the 1828 and other earlier censuses . ( cp . J. D. Lang , Historical and Statistical Account of N.S.W. , etc. , 2 vols . , London 1834 , vol . 1 ...
... Arrived Free . ' The number of emancipists given is certainly too small , as it was also in the 1828 and other earlier censuses . ( cp . J. D. Lang , Historical and Statistical Account of N.S.W. , etc. , 2 vols . , London 1834 , vol . 1 ...
Page 81
... arrived immigrants found their way to the bush as ' crawlers ' . Mechanics possessing any degree of skill could usually find work in or near Sydney , but unskilled labourers , operatives or clerks , for whose services there was ...
... arrived immigrants found their way to the bush as ' crawlers ' . Mechanics possessing any degree of skill could usually find work in or near Sydney , but unskilled labourers , operatives or clerks , for whose services there was ...
Page 115
... arrival was spread over ten years and each gold - seeker , on landing , found himself a single individual , or one of a ... arrived Scotsman : [ a ] ' chuckle - headed , porridge - eating , lime - juicing son of a sea- cook ' ( as he ...
... arrival was spread over ten years and each gold - seeker , on landing , found himself a single individual , or one of a ... arrived Scotsman : [ a ] ' chuckle - headed , porridge - eating , lime - juicing son of a sea- cook ' ( as he ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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