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 25
... popular they may be . . . . It is natural to suppose that transportation ballads would have been especially popular among our pioneers , and there is evidence to show that this was , in fact , the case . As late as 1888 a Sydney ...
... popular they may be . . . . It is natural to suppose that transportation ballads would have been especially popular among our pioneers , and there is evidence to show that this was , in fact , the case . As late as 1888 a Sydney ...
Page 79
... popular with emigrants , ' wrote Sidney . " They are afraid , and prefer lingering at lower wages in the settled districts ; if they get up , they are not of much use at first , lose your sheep and bullocks , and themselves . . ' UP THE ...
... popular with emigrants , ' wrote Sidney . " They are afraid , and prefer lingering at lower wages in the settled districts ; if they get up , they are not of much use at first , lose your sheep and bullocks , and themselves . . ' UP THE ...
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... popular feeling generally , if one really was in the wrong.'14 On newly discovered or remote fields this ' sort of popular feel- ing ' kept order , if not law , and punished wrongdoers , without the assistance of government officials ...
... popular feeling generally , if one really was in the wrong.'14 On newly discovered or remote fields this ' sort of popular feel- ing ' kept order , if not law , and punished wrongdoers , without the assistance of government officials ...
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