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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... outback stations and back again . They carried news , gossip , manners and songs , as well as stores , wool and ... outback areas of New South Wales and Queensland , and it was these areas that furnished the material for all his yarns ...
... outback stations and back again . They carried news , gossip , manners and songs , as well as stores , wool and ... outback areas of New South Wales and Queensland , and it was these areas that furnished the material for all his yarns ...
Page 75
... outback jobs , it seems to have attracted a higher proportion of old hands than any other . In Port Phillip , wrote Joyce , ' there were two classes of shearers , the Derwenters from Van Diemen's Land , and the Sydneys . The former were ...
... outback jobs , it seems to have attracted a higher proportion of old hands than any other . In Port Phillip , wrote Joyce , ' there were two classes of shearers , the Derwenters from Van Diemen's Land , and the Sydneys . The former were ...
Page 102
... outback life . Perhaps he exaggerates somewhat , but the mere physical difficulties of communication with the capital were alone sufficient to induce in outback workers an awareness of themselves as a distinct community.58 For working ...
... outback life . Perhaps he exaggerates somewhat , but the mere physical difficulties of communication with the capital were alone sufficient to induce in outback workers an awareness of themselves as a distinct community.58 For working ...
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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