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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... early in 1833 when this man saw some unoffending natives in the way : " " Damn the rascals , ” said he , " I'll show you how we treat them in Van Diemen's Land , " and immediately fired on them.'12 Samuel Sidney recorded in 1852 : The ...
... early in 1833 when this man saw some unoffending natives in the way : " " Damn the rascals , ” said he , " I'll show you how we treat them in Van Diemen's Land , " and immediately fired on them.'12 Samuel Sidney recorded in 1852 : The ...
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... earliest ' frontier ' areas . The heart or bud at the growing tip of the palm was a substitute for cabbage among the early settlers and cedar - getters , and the pinnate fronds were woven into broad- brimmed , flat - crowned , ' cabbage ...
... earliest ' frontier ' areas . The heart or bud at the growing tip of the palm was a substitute for cabbage among the early settlers and cedar - getters , and the pinnate fronds were woven into broad- brimmed , flat - crowned , ' cabbage ...
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... early as 1890 we find Lawson with sentimental nostalgia , but some truth , writing of up - country ways as something which had already passed with the coming of the locomotive : Them early days was ended when the railroad crossed the ...
... early as 1890 we find Lawson with sentimental nostalgia , but some truth , writing of up - country ways as something which had already passed with the coming of the locomotive : Them early days was ended when the railroad crossed the ...
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