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 92
... observer , Alexander Marjoribanks , though less dis- turbed by the facts , thought Sydney's churches even emptier , estimating that not more than 5,000 out of Sydney's then popula- tion of 45,000 ever attended church at all . He wrote ...
... observer , Alexander Marjoribanks , though less dis- turbed by the facts , thought Sydney's churches even emptier , estimating that not more than 5,000 out of Sydney's then popula- tion of 45,000 ever attended church at all . He wrote ...
Page 100
... observers noticed only the rugged exterior . Describing an encampment of bullock - drivers at a waterhole , Mundy ... observer thought that the cedar - sawyers on the North Coast of New South Wales lived in a way ' compared with which ...
... observers noticed only the rugged exterior . Describing an encampment of bullock - drivers at a waterhole , Mundy ... observer thought that the cedar - sawyers on the North Coast of New South Wales lived in a way ' compared with which ...
Page 156
... observer wrote : There was a force called the Field Police , who were volunteer convicts that had served a certain time , and by additional service got a ticket - of - leave or emancipation . They were hated by all classes , for they ...
... observer wrote : There was a force called the Field Police , who were volunteer convicts that had served a certain time , and by additional service got a ticket - of - leave or emancipation . They were hated by all classes , for they ...
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