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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Page 48
... Irish descent in New South Wales as there were in the British Isles . Before 1851 more than half of the assisted immigrants reaching New South Wales were Irish . The actual figure is forty - eight per cent , but this excludes many Irish ...
... Irish descent in New South Wales as there were in the British Isles . Before 1851 more than half of the assisted immigrants reaching New South Wales were Irish . The actual figure is forty - eight per cent , but this excludes many Irish ...
Page 50
... Irish colonists was clearly recognized by Catholic spokesmen of the time.8 There is nothing discreditable to the Irish people in this fact . At home political , social and economic factors had combined to reduce their standard of living ...
... Irish colonists was clearly recognized by Catholic spokesmen of the time.8 There is nothing discreditable to the Irish people in this fact . At home political , social and economic factors had combined to reduce their standard of living ...
Page 51
... Irish character , in some of its worst features , is deeply imprinted upon this colony , and that it would be well for it if the tide of a similar description of its population were to cease to set in here from the shores of Ireland ...
... Irish character , in some of its worst features , is deeply imprinted upon this colony , and that it would be well for it if the tide of a similar description of its population were to cease to set in here from the shores of Ireland ...
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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