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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... population distribution during the period : TABLE VS County of Cumber- land- 1841 1851 Other Counties within boundaries Location- 1841 1851 Squatting Districts beyond boundaries Location- 1841 1851 Convicts ' Other Free Persons ' Born ...
... population distribution during the period : TABLE VS County of Cumber- land- 1841 1851 Other Counties within boundaries Location- 1841 1851 Squatting Districts beyond boundaries Location- 1841 1851 Convicts ' Other Free Persons ' Born ...
Page 112
... population of all Australia nearly trebled , growing from 405,356 to 1,145,585 . It goes without saying that such a vast influx of immigrants had very important effects on Australian life ; yet in some ways the influence of the ...
... population of all Australia nearly trebled , growing from 405,356 to 1,145,585 . It goes without saying that such a vast influx of immigrants had very important effects on Australian life ; yet in some ways the influence of the ...
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... Population 1841 % of Total 1851 % of Total 1861 % of Total N.S.W. 73,367 62.7 110,713 59.1 194,000 ( 183,000 ) 50.9 ( 52.1 ) Vic . 2,456 20.9 20,470+ ? 157,911+ ? From Table VIII it is clear that although the rate of increase in the ...
... Population 1841 % of Total 1851 % of Total 1861 % of Total N.S.W. 73,367 62.7 110,713 59.1 194,000 ( 183,000 ) 50.9 ( 52.1 ) Vic . 2,456 20.9 20,470+ ? 157,911+ ? From Table VIII it is clear that although the rate of increase in the ...
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