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 75
... outback jobs , it seems to have attracted a higher proportion of old hands than any other . In Port Phillip , wrote Joyce , ' there were two classes of shearers , the Derwenters from Van Diemen's Land , and the Sydneys . The former were ...
... outback jobs , it seems to have attracted a higher proportion of old hands than any other . In Port Phillip , wrote Joyce , ' there were two classes of shearers , the Derwenters from Van Diemen's Land , and the Sydneys . The former were ...
Page 102
... outback life . Perhaps he exaggerates somewhat , but the mere physical difficulties of communication with the capital were alone sufficient to induce in outback workers an awareness of themselves as a distinct community.58 For working ...
... outback life . Perhaps he exaggerates somewhat , but the mere physical difficulties of communication with the capital were alone sufficient to induce in outback workers an awareness of themselves as a distinct community.58 For working ...
Page 138
... outback tradition , but at least equally to the fact that the conditions of bush life , which had done so much to mould that tradition in the earlier period , were still substantially unchanged after the Gold Rush . In the more settled ...
... outback tradition , but at least equally to the fact that the conditions of bush life , which had done so much to mould that tradition in the earlier period , were still substantially unchanged after the Gold Rush . In the more settled ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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