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 86
... song itself is not Australian , but neither is it an English folk - song of the type of ' Adieu to Old England ' or ' Van Diemen's Land ' . There is none of the underlying melancholy_and_overt conventional moralizing , typical of the ...
... song itself is not Australian , but neither is it an English folk - song of the type of ' Adieu to Old England ' or ' Van Diemen's Land ' . There is none of the underlying melancholy_and_overt conventional moralizing , typical of the ...
Page 124
... songs like the following : The Bond Street Swell ( A new original song , written and sung by Chas . R. Thatcher , with unbounded applause . ) Tune : ' Nice Young Man ' I'll sing you now just a little song , For you must understand ...
... songs like the following : The Bond Street Swell ( A new original song , written and sung by Chas . R. Thatcher , with unbounded applause . ) Tune : ' Nice Young Man ' I'll sing you now just a little song , For you must understand ...
Page 275
... Song , Sydney , 1896 . Waltzing Matilda , Sydney , 1903 . Old Bush Songs , Sydney , 1905 , 1930 . Saltbush Bill , J.P. , and Other Verses , Sydney , 1917 . Collected Works of , Sydney , 1921 . Collected Verse of , Sydney , 1953 ...
... Song , Sydney , 1896 . Waltzing Matilda , Sydney , 1903 . Old Bush Songs , Sydney , 1905 , 1930 . Saltbush Bill , J.P. , and Other Verses , Sydney , 1917 . Collected Works of , Sydney , 1921 . Collected Verse of , Sydney , 1953 ...
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