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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Page 104
... hundred accordions and fifty gross of the harps of Judah are considered small investments by one vessel . A shepherd has been known to walk two hundred miles from a distant station of the interior , to purchase one of them at the ...
... hundred accordions and fifty gross of the harps of Judah are considered small investments by one vessel . A shepherd has been known to walk two hundred miles from a distant station of the interior , to purchase one of them at the ...
Page 215
... hundred , eighty six . The time of which I'm singing Is about of the beginning , How the squatters blowed they'd cut the price To seventeen and six . The shearer has his version , And with truth make [ sic ] the assertion , Our ...
... hundred , eighty six . The time of which I'm singing Is about of the beginning , How the squatters blowed they'd cut the price To seventeen and six . The shearer has his version , And with truth make [ sic ] the assertion , Our ...
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... hundred to two hundred years hence , will still live with the consciousness that , if he only goes far enough back over the hills and across the plains , he comes in the end to the mysterious half - desert country where men have to live ...
... hundred to two hundred years hence , will still live with the consciousness that , if he only goes far enough back over the hills and across the plains , he comes in the end to the mysterious half - desert country where men have to live ...
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