The Australian Legend"This book attempts to trace the historical origins and development of the Australian legend or national mystique. It argues that a specifically Australian outlook grew up first and most clearly among the bush workers in the Australian pastoral industry, and that this group has had an influence, completely disproportionate to its numerical and economic strength, on the attitudes of the whole Australian community."--Foreword |
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... English statute book increased from fifty to about a hundred and fifty . It is true that after 1820 the reforms of Peel , Brougham and Lord John Russell mitigated the severity of the laws , though but slightly by modern standards . On ...
... English statute book increased from fifty to about a hundred and fifty . It is true that after 1820 the reforms of Peel , Brougham and Lord John Russell mitigated the severity of the laws , though but slightly by modern standards . On ...
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... English Journal of Education , vol . 9 , 1851 , p . 33 ff . 16 Sydney Bulletin , 10 March 1888 , p . 14 . 17 I have ... English Colony at Botany Bay , etc. , London 1808 , p . 65 ; and cp . David Collins , An Account of the English ...
... English Journal of Education , vol . 9 , 1851 , p . 33 ff . 16 Sydney Bulletin , 10 March 1888 , p . 14 . 17 I have ... English Colony at Botany Bay , etc. , London 1808 , p . 65 ; and cp . David Collins , An Account of the English ...
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... English fellows , he tended to glory insultingly in his new - found confidence was a measure of his previous degradation . As John Sidney wrote in his Voice from the Far Interior ( 1847 ) : The sweepings of English workhouses and Irish ...
... English fellows , he tended to glory insultingly in his new - found confidence was a measure of his previous degradation . As John Sidney wrote in his Voice from the Far Interior ( 1847 ) : The sweepings of English workhouses and Irish ...
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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 less Library of Victoria living London 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 Plains 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 University up-country Van Diemen's Land Victoria working-class writes wrote