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 33
... perhaps to learn that these are the people who have Quietly submitted to the Laws and Regulations of the Colony , altho ' informed by the Free Settlers and some of the Officers of Government that they were illegal ! these are the Men ...
... perhaps to learn that these are the people who have Quietly submitted to the Laws and Regulations of the Colony , altho ' informed by the Free Settlers and some of the Officers of Government that they were illegal ! these are the Men ...
Page 66
... perhaps , to muster coin enough to enter the house , amuse themselves by molesting those who can afford that luxury . Dressed in a suit of fustian or colonial tweed , and the emblem of their order , the low - crowned cabbage - palm hat ...
... perhaps , to muster coin enough to enter the house , amuse themselves by molesting those who can afford that luxury . Dressed in a suit of fustian or colonial tweed , and the emblem of their order , the low - crowned cabbage - palm hat ...
Page 185
... perhaps even more thoroughly than he had been in the past . One stanza of a cattle - mustering song goes : A long - haired shepherd we chanced to meet With a water - bag , billy , and dog complete ; He came too close to a knocked - up ...
... perhaps even more thoroughly than he had been in the past . One stanza of a cattle - mustering song goes : A long - haired shepherd we chanced to meet With a water - bag , billy , and dog complete ; He came too close to a knocked - up ...
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