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 56
... felt to weaken the attachment to Crown and Empire . For English and Scottish working - class immigrants , patriotic and class feelings seemed to pull in opposite directions . For Irish - Australian working people the reverse was true ...
... felt to weaken the attachment to Crown and Empire . For English and Scottish working - class immigrants , patriotic and class feelings seemed to pull in opposite directions . For Irish - Australian working people the reverse was true ...
Page 79
... felt by masters and men alike . Haygarth communicates the feeling very accurately in the following passage : This sensation of absolute freedom , which is one of the chief attractions of this sort of life , some might say its only one ...
... felt by masters and men alike . Haygarth communicates the feeling very accurately in the following passage : This sensation of absolute freedom , which is one of the chief attractions of this sort of life , some might say its only one ...
Page 174
... felt especially ex- ploited , as its progenitors had felt , however inarticulately . And yet , though they rarely owned a foot of it , the bush - workers felt too that they loved and understood the land in a way , and with an intimacy ...
... felt especially ex- ploited , as its progenitors had felt , however inarticulately . And yet , though they rarely owned a foot of it , the bush - workers felt too that they loved and understood the land in a way , and with an intimacy ...
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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