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 117
... digging itself evoked just those practical ' qualities and skills which had for long been recognized as typically ' Australian ' . Here is the record of a digger on his way to the diggings in 1852 : [ I ] began to find out the ...
... digging itself evoked just those practical ' qualities and skills which had for long been recognized as typically ' Australian ' . Here is the record of a digger on his way to the diggings in 1852 : [ I ] began to find out the ...
Page 121
Russel Braddock Ward. especially prevalent on the diggings . Here are no conventionalities ; no touching of hats . Men meet on apparently equal terms ; and he who enjoyed the standing of a gentleman in England becomes aware , on the ...
Russel Braddock Ward. especially prevalent on the diggings . Here are no conventionalities ; no touching of hats . Men meet on apparently equal terms ; and he who enjoyed the standing of a gentleman in England becomes aware , on the ...
Page 131
... diggings , meant that they were a potential threat to the living standard of colonial workmen and provided a rational basis for complaint . The sudden arrival of forty thousand foreigners , 46 differing so completely from the colonists ...
... diggings , meant that they were a potential threat to the living standard of colonial workmen and provided a rational basis for complaint . The sudden arrival of forty thousand foreigners , 46 differing so completely from the colonists ...
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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