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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... Cabbage- tree Hat Mob ' . The cabbage - tree palm ( Livistona australis ) grew only in the rain - forests between the Great Dividing Range and the Pacific , being very common in the Illawarra district which was one of the earliest ...
... Cabbage- tree Hat Mob ' . The cabbage - tree palm ( Livistona australis ) grew only in the rain - forests between the Great Dividing Range and the Pacific , being very common in the Illawarra district which was one of the earliest ...
Page 66
... Cabbage - tree Hat Mob ' come from educated , middle - class immigrants , whose own more polished manners may often have been such as to arouse the very worst in the native - born . Here , as so often elsewhere , the testi- mony of ...
... Cabbage - tree Hat Mob ' come from educated , middle - class immigrants , whose own more polished manners may often have been such as to arouse the very worst in the native - born . Here , as so often elsewhere , the testi- mony of ...
Page 116
... cabbage - tree hats ; but their efforts to appear ' colonial ' are not always so harmless , and , as swearing is an ... hat . ' On the goldfields the first arrivals from overseas met a higher proportion of old hands than they would have ...
... cabbage - tree hats ; but their efforts to appear ' colonial ' are not always so harmless , and , as swearing is an ... hat . ' On the goldfields the first arrivals from overseas met a higher proportion of old hands than they would have ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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