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 145
... bushrangers came to occupy such a prominent place in Australian legend partly because , in the last century , Australia took part in no great wars , and thus there were no colourful military figures to serve , as they tend to do in ...
... bushrangers came to occupy such a prominent place in Australian legend partly because , in the last century , Australia took part in no great wars , and thus there were no colourful military figures to serve , as they tend to do in ...
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... bushrangers in New South Wales during the 1860's were Francis Christie ( alias Frank Gar- diner or " The Darkie ' ) and Ben Hall . Like Ned Kelly and most other bushrangers of the post - Gold - Rush period , both were native- born and ...
... bushrangers in New South Wales during the 1860's were Francis Christie ( alias Frank Gar- diner or " The Darkie ' ) and Ben Hall . Like Ned Kelly and most other bushrangers of the post - Gold - Rush period , both were native- born and ...
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... bushrangers were to be released with ' Gardiner ' and by claiming that in any case remis- sion of criminals ' sentences was not and should not be in any sense a political matter , but one for the gubernatorial discretion . Public ...
... bushrangers were to be released with ' Gardiner ' and by claiming that in any case remis- sion of criminals ' sentences was not and should not be in any sense a political matter , but one for the gubernatorial discretion . Public ...
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