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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... ethos which , though similar to those of certain other communities distant in time and place , was in some ways unique . Among the influences which shaped the life of the outback community the brute facts of Australian geography were ...
... ethos which , though similar to those of certain other communities distant in time and place , was in some ways unique . Among the influences which shaped the life of the outback community the brute facts of Australian geography were ...
Page 170
... ethos and the expression of it in politics . The first principal ' of the Sydney University warned in 1861 that a great deal more than self - government would be required to make a handful of infant colonies into a nation . After ...
... ethos and the expression of it in politics . The first principal ' of the Sydney University warned in 1861 that a great deal more than self - government would be required to make a handful of infant colonies into a nation . After ...
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... ethos of the bush - worker . In 1861 24.60 per cent of the people who married in New South Wales signed the register ... ethos , they also tended to make city - dwelling and other Australians much more conscious of that ethos than they ...
... ethos of the bush - worker . In 1861 24.60 per cent of the people who married in New South Wales signed the register ... ethos , they also tended to make city - dwelling and other Australians much more conscious of that ethos than they ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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