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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... Typical of many , he says , was the following : ' Many a Mac in your town , if he only knew what the situation of a convict was , would not be long in following my example ! Thank God for the same ! I never was better off in my life ...
... Typical of many , he says , was the following : ' Many a Mac in your town , if he only knew what the situation of a convict was , would not be long in following my example ! Thank God for the same ! I never was better off in my life ...
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... typical American or Aus- tralian . How could one , in the last century , apprehend a typical American or Australian except by reference to those traits and manners which distinguished him most sharply from his ancestors and congeners in ...
... typical American or Aus- tralian . How could one , in the last century , apprehend a typical American or Australian except by reference to those traits and manners which distinguished him most sharply from his ancestors and congeners in ...
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... typical ( i.e. most un - English ) Australia , and the typical Australians , were to be found on the western plains beyond the mountains . One man observed in 1895 : Townspeople in Australia do not differ very much from their congenors ...
... typical ( i.e. most un - English ) Australia , and the typical Australians , were to be found on the western plains beyond the mountains . One man observed in 1895 : Townspeople in Australia do not differ very much from their congenors ...
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