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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... frontier has been in the pro- motion of democracy here and in Europe . As has been indicated the frontier has been productive of individualism . Complex society is precipitated by the wilderness into a kind of primitive organization ...
... frontier has been in the pro- motion of democracy here and in Europe . As has been indicated the frontier has been productive of individualism . Complex society is precipitated by the wilderness into a kind of primitive organization ...
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... frontier ; I think it is not fanciful to suggest that Aus- tralia owes much of its collectivism to the fact that its frontier was hospitable to the large man instead.17 In this sense then the Australian frontier had an exactly opposite ...
... frontier ; I think it is not fanciful to suggest that Aus- tralia owes much of its collectivism to the fact that its frontier was hospitable to the large man instead.17 In this sense then the Australian frontier had an exactly opposite ...
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... Frontier in American History , New York 1948 ed . , p . 4 . 3 Quoted Desmond Byrne , Australian Writers , London 1896 , p . 197 . 4 For trenchant criticisms of Turner's views see G. R. Taylor ( ed . ) , The Turner Thesis , etc. , Boston ...
... Frontier in American History , New York 1948 ed . , p . 4 . 3 Quoted Desmond Byrne , Australian Writers , London 1896 , p . 197 . 4 For trenchant criticisms of Turner's views see G. R. Taylor ( ed . ) , The Turner Thesis , etc. , Boston ...
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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