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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... true , relations are for the most part amicable enough between capitalists and workmen ; and the lack of deference in the tone of employees , their employers , being unable to resent , have grown to tolerate , and even perhaps in some ...
... true , relations are for the most part amicable enough between capitalists and workmen ; and the lack of deference in the tone of employees , their employers , being unable to resent , have grown to tolerate , and even perhaps in some ...
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... true explanation , this concentration of Irish convicts in the mother colony was one more factor tending to make New South Wales the major seed - bed of the emerging Australian ethos . It also helps to explain the traditional feeling ...
... true explanation , this concentration of Irish convicts in the mother colony was one more factor tending to make New South Wales the major seed - bed of the emerging Australian ethos . It also helps to explain the traditional feeling ...
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... true associates ' , the native - born bushranger is doubly distin- guished by being placed first and called by his christian name . As befits a hero , Donahoe , in the ballad , is no ' tinpot man ' or ' cocka- too ' , no petty thief ...
... true associates ' , the native - born bushranger is doubly distin- guished by being placed first and called by his christian name . As befits a hero , Donahoe , in the ballad , is no ' tinpot man ' or ' cocka- too ' , no petty thief ...
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