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 72
... Natives Arrived Free Convict , Eman- cipist and Native % Total Population 7,908 7,959 16,257 32,124 25,984 734 6,546 36,812 44,092 37,022 55.3 54.4 the of 13,553 998 7,929 11,114 32,596 12,836 35,226 49,060 14,852 68.7 29,372 62.6 the ...
... Natives Arrived Free Convict , Eman- cipist and Native % Total Population 7,908 7,959 16,257 32,124 25,984 734 6,546 36,812 44,092 37,022 55.3 54.4 the of 13,553 998 7,929 11,114 32,596 12,836 35,226 49,060 14,852 68.7 29,372 62.6 the ...
Page 113
... native - born population , even in Victoria , was significantly higher than that of the population as a whole ; while Table X shows that this former rate was higher still , if to the native - born be added the ex - convict population ...
... native - born population , even in Victoria , was significantly higher than that of the population as a whole ; while Table X shows that this former rate was higher still , if to the native - born be added the ex - convict population ...
Page 134
... native fellows took a pride in copying them , and could walk and talk and guess and calculate wonderful well considering . Besides , most of the natives have a sort of slow , sleepy way of talking , so it partly came natural to this ...
... native fellows took a pride in copying them , and could walk and talk and guess and calculate wonderful well considering . Besides , most of the natives have a sort of slow , sleepy way of talking , so it partly came natural to this ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
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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