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 90
... tion of the savagery of ' flogging parsons ' persisted for over a cen- tury . J. D. Lang wrote in 1834 : Under so preposterous and so enormous a system , well might the miserable wretch , whose back was still smarting under the Satur ...
... tion of the savagery of ' flogging parsons ' persisted for over a cen- tury . J. D. Lang wrote in 1834 : Under so preposterous and so enormous a system , well might the miserable wretch , whose back was still smarting under the Satur ...
Page 254
... tion was there but the frontiersman ? The average American or Australian is not the same person as the typical American or Aus- tralian . How could one , in the last century , apprehend a typical American or Australian except by ...
... tion was there but the frontiersman ? The average American or Australian is not the same person as the typical American or Aus- tralian . How could one , in the last century , apprehend a typical American or Australian except by ...
Page 258
... tion a people lacks cohesion , balance and confidence . It is usually assumed that in a young country like ours , inherited attitudes exert less influence than in an old one . The truth may be that , because of its relative youth , our ...
... tion a people lacks cohesion , balance and confidence . It is usually assumed that in a young country like ours , inherited attitudes exert less influence than in an old one . The truth may be that , because of its relative youth , our ...
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