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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... sentiment . The latter , as we have seen , tended to spring up first among the convicts and lower - class immigrants , and it is true only to say that , among these elements of the population , people of Irish birth or ancestry tended ...
... sentiment . The latter , as we have seen , tended to spring up first among the convicts and lower - class immigrants , and it is true only to say that , among these elements of the population , people of Irish birth or ancestry tended ...
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... sentiment was decisive in the choice of the word ' Commonwealth ' for the name of the new national government in 1901. He also suggests that this particular kind of democratic sentiment , in some ways ' opposed to the notions of ...
... sentiment was decisive in the choice of the word ' Commonwealth ' for the name of the new national government in 1901. He also suggests that this particular kind of democratic sentiment , in some ways ' opposed to the notions of ...
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... sentiments , and that these in turn made for political unity of the separate colonies . At the end of the century the ... sentiment was strongest , was overwhelming . But the ' outback ' constituencies in the north - west also returned ...
... sentiments , and that these in turn made for political unity of the separate colonies . At the end of the century the ... sentiment was strongest , was overwhelming . But the ' outback ' constituencies in the north - west also returned ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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