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 97
Russel Braddock Ward. districts . In the ' farthest - out ' district of Maranoa there were for instance , in 1851 , 65 single males over 13 years of age and no single women of the same age group . There were also three married men and ...
Russel Braddock Ward. districts . In the ' farthest - out ' district of Maranoa there were for instance , in 1851 , 65 single males over 13 years of age and no single women of the same age group . There were also three married men and ...
Page 107
... districts of Port Phillip and the penal stations of Norfolk Island and Moreton Bay . The figures for 1841 exclude ... District , etc. , Dublin 1845 , p . 77 . 9 J. C. Hamilton , Pioneering Days in Early Victoria , Melbourne n.d. ( 1913 ) ...
... districts of Port Phillip and the penal stations of Norfolk Island and Moreton Bay . The figures for 1841 exclude ... District , etc. , Dublin 1845 , p . 77 . 9 J. C. Hamilton , Pioneering Days in Early Victoria , Melbourne n.d. ( 1913 ) ...
Page 158
... district : On the borders of that vast nest of highwaymen , New South Wales , ... perhaps there is no district in the colony where the law has made itself so respected . Few crimes of very great magnitude have been committed , chiefly ...
... district : On the borders of that vast nest of highwaymen , New South Wales , ... perhaps there is no district in the colony where the law has made itself so respected . Few crimes of very great magnitude have been committed , chiefly ...
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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