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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... attitude of the police to the public in such matters as traffic control did much to establish the regard in which the Police Depart- ment was held in the community , Mr John Bonython , a director of the Advertiser , said yesterday ...
... attitude of the police to the public in such matters as traffic control did much to establish the regard in which the Police Depart- ment was held in the community , Mr John Bonython , a director of the Advertiser , said yesterday ...
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... attitude partly explains the contra- dictory reports about the honesty of diggers . A new chum like Craig , who lived on uneasily familiar terms with a party of thoroughly vicious Vandemonians , was protected by one of the worst of them ...
... attitude partly explains the contra- dictory reports about the honesty of diggers . A new chum like Craig , who lived on uneasily familiar terms with a party of thoroughly vicious Vandemonians , was protected by one of the worst of them ...
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... attitude to the small farmer and his way of life : Bill Jackson ... had been a cocky's boy as a kid , and had known what it was to be kicked out of bed at four in the morning to milk cows , and to be kicked right through the day till ...
... attitude to the small farmer and his way of life : Bill Jackson ... had been a cocky's boy as a kid , and had known what it was to be kicked out of bed at four in the morning to milk cows , and to be kicked right through the day till ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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