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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... Evidence , 1837 , p . 153 ( Evidence of Lt Col. H. Breton ) . 4 Canberra Times , 21 September 1955 , p . 4 : “ The Vice - President of the Executive Council , Sir Eric Harrison , yesterday called Mr E. J. Ward a " sucker " who had ...
... Evidence , 1837 , p . 153 ( Evidence of Lt Col. H. Breton ) . 4 Canberra Times , 21 September 1955 , p . 4 : “ The Vice - President of the Executive Council , Sir Eric Harrison , yesterday called Mr E. J. Ward a " sucker " who had ...
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... evidence against each other was unsurmountable , and by far the greater part of the acquittals were occasioned by a wilful suppression of evi- dence . ' 6 A. W. Stirling , The Never Never Land , etc. , 2nd ed . , London 1884 , P. 21 . 7 ...
... evidence against each other was unsurmountable , and by far the greater part of the acquittals were occasioned by a wilful suppression of evi- dence . ' 6 A. W. Stirling , The Never Never Land , etc. , 2nd ed . , London 1884 , P. 21 . 7 ...
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... evidence of Judge Therry who wrote : Bushrangers , it is known , have been the terror of New South Wales . Of some hundreds of them who passed through our criminal courts , I do not remember to have met with one who had not been over ...
... evidence of Judge Therry who wrote : Bushrangers , it is known , have been the terror of New South Wales . Of some hundreds of them who passed through our criminal courts , I do not remember to have met with one who had not been over ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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