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 41
... labour . Slaves , subject to the lash , to chains , and the penal settle- ments , have served them ; they have become accustomed to such , and with these habits , they forget the rights of free men . Newcomers often fall into this mode ...
... labour . Slaves , subject to the lash , to chains , and the penal settle- ments , have served them ; they have become accustomed to such , and with these habits , they forget the rights of free men . Newcomers often fall into this mode ...
Page 73
... labour force , were conscripted to the up - country life . From 1827 onwards government administrative policy consciously aimed at directing convict labour to the hinterland . Scottish and other flockmasters of the interior generally ...
... labour force , were conscripted to the up - country life . From 1827 onwards government administrative policy consciously aimed at directing convict labour to the hinterland . Scottish and other flockmasters of the interior generally ...
Page 226
... Labour Party not to recommend citizens for titles , and for the anti - Labour parties to refrain from recommend- ing the Royal bestowal of hereditary titles . For the rest , apart from formal republican independence and Henry George's ...
... Labour Party not to recommend citizens for titles , and for the anti - Labour parties to refrain from recommend- ing the Royal bestowal of hereditary titles . For the rest , apart from formal republican independence and Henry George's ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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