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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... Labor parties ' , all Australian historians may agree and applaud- if he means ... pastoral industry of the period for instance . More directly he writes that ... workers . I can only reply here by inverting J. M. Ward's questions . Has ...
... Labor parties ' , all Australian historians may agree and applaud- if he means ... pastoral industry of the period for instance . More directly he writes that ... workers . I can only reply here by inverting J. M. Ward's questions . Has ...
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... pastoral workers , but partly too because the first and most influential bush - workers were convicts or ex - convicts , the conditions of whose lives were such that they brought with them to the bush the same , or very similar ...
... pastoral workers , but partly too because the first and most influential bush - workers were convicts or ex - convicts , the conditions of whose lives were such that they brought with them to the bush the same , or very similar ...
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... pastoral workers and their employers . The squatters ' reasons for hating farmers are well known , and need not be enlarged upon here . Of itself , this mutual hostility tended to make common ground between selectors and pastoral workers ...
... pastoral workers and their employers . The squatters ' reasons for hating farmers are well known , and need not be enlarged upon here . Of itself , this mutual hostility tended to make common ground between selectors and pastoral workers ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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