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 31
... Plains . C. E. W. Bean notices this faculty for improvisation as being , at a much later period , an established characteristic of bushmen , and explains it , correctly enough , as a necessary response to outback conditions.21 But the ...
... Plains . C. E. W. Bean notices this faculty for improvisation as being , at a much later period , an established characteristic of bushmen , and explains it , correctly enough , as a necessary response to outback conditions.21 But the ...
Page 168
... plains ' , together with his mates , in the manner beloved of the nomad tribe of pastoral workers . In the fullness of time the convict bolter , Jack Donahoe , became the anonymous Wild Colonial Boy , a native - born Australian son who ...
... plains ' , together with his mates , in the manner beloved of the nomad tribe of pastoral workers . In the fullness of time the convict bolter , Jack Donahoe , became the anonymous Wild Colonial Boy , a native - born Australian son who ...
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... plains extending westward from the Blue Mountains summits . In 1820 the youthful W. C. Wentworth had written : To those who are acquainted with the local situation of the colony , -who have traversed the formidable chain of mountains by ...
... plains extending westward from the Blue Mountains summits . In 1820 the youthful W. C. Wentworth had written : To those who are acquainted with the local situation of the colony , -who have traversed the formidable chain of mountains by ...
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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