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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... masters on the other side of the continent . The Advocate General and Judge of the Colony's first Civil Court complained constantly that masters there were such only in name , being actually ' the slaves of their indentured servants ...
... masters on the other side of the continent . The Advocate General and Judge of the Colony's first Civil Court complained constantly that masters there were such only in name , being actually ' the slaves of their indentured servants ...
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... masters are almost entirely at the mercy of their free servants . Where labourers were so scarce , and magistrates often several days ' or even weeks ' journey distant , even the Draconic Masters and Servants Acts were often of little ...
... masters are almost entirely at the mercy of their free servants . Where labourers were so scarce , and magistrates often several days ' or even weeks ' journey distant , even the Draconic Masters and Servants Acts were often of little ...
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... masters ' own hands , ' and Sidney roundly declared : ' bushranging by prisoners , has in almost every instance been occasioned by cruel , unjust masters . " After his retirement Macquarie wrote to Bathurst on 10 October 1823 : I have ...
... masters ' own hands , ' and Sidney roundly declared : ' bushranging by prisoners , has in almost every instance been occasioned by cruel , unjust masters . " After his retirement Macquarie wrote to Bathurst on 10 October 1823 : I have ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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