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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... shearing - board before I chanced to go , Saw eight or ten dashed Chinamen all shearing in a row . Chorus : It was shift , boys , shift , there was not the slightest doubt It was time to make a shift with leprosy about . horses and ...
... shearing - board before I chanced to go , Saw eight or ten dashed Chinamen all shearing in a row . Chorus : It was shift , boys , shift , there was not the slightest doubt It was time to make a shift with leprosy about . horses and ...
Page 188
... shearing . Now when the shearing season comes They hear the price that's going : New arrivals meet old chums , Then they start their blowing . They say that they can shear each day Their hundred pretty handy , But eighty sheep is no ...
... shearing . Now when the shearing season comes They hear the price that's going : New arrivals meet old chums , Then they start their blowing . They say that they can shear each day Their hundred pretty handy , But eighty sheep is no ...
Page 282
... Shearing 74-75 , 101 , 154 , 182 , 186-93 , 198 , 213-17 , 226 Shepherds 80-81 , 84 , 101 , 104 , 118 , 138 , 140 , 161 , 185 Sidney , John ( ' A Bushman ' ) , on convicts as bush - workers 74 high living standards 52 99 " 2 ...
... Shearing 74-75 , 101 , 154 , 182 , 186-93 , 198 , 213-17 , 226 Shepherds 80-81 , 84 , 101 , 104 , 118 , 138 , 140 , 161 , 185 Sidney , John ( ' A Bushman ' ) , on convicts as bush - workers 74 high living standards 52 99 " 2 ...
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