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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... fact . We shall find that the Australian legend has , perhaps , a more solid sub- stratum of fact than most , but this does not mean that it comprises all , or even most , of what we need to know to understand Aus- tralia and Australian ...
... fact . We shall find that the Australian legend has , perhaps , a more solid sub- stratum of fact than most , but this does not mean that it comprises all , or even most , of what we need to know to understand Aus- tralia and Australian ...
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... fact of separate origins of the colonies which later became the federated states of the Commonwealth . There have always been , and still are , differences between them in speech , manners , tradition and outlook . But compared with ...
... fact of separate origins of the colonies which later became the federated states of the Commonwealth . There have always been , and still are , differences between them in speech , manners , tradition and outlook . But compared with ...
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... fact that , among the working classes there prevailed habits and language which now characterize the lowest grades only , we begin to realise how much our world of Australia has changed . And these are not the only facts we can recall ...
... fact that , among the working classes there prevailed habits and language which now characterize the lowest grades only , we begin to realise how much our world of Australia has changed . And these are not the only facts we can recall ...
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