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 186
... shearers comprised the company from whom the stockmen took pains to hide their mirth . Certainly in the 1880's and 1890's shearers considered themselves , and were considered by many bushmen , nonpareils of the whole earth . An ...
... shearers comprised the company from whom the stockmen took pains to hide their mirth . Certainly in the 1880's and 1890's shearers considered themselves , and were considered by many bushmen , nonpareils of the whole earth . An ...
Page 187
... Shearers have always been paid by piecework , at so much per hundred sheep shorn , and so the champion shearer of the shed , the ringer , was he who could shear more sheep in a day than any- one else . Most squatters attached more ...
... Shearers have always been paid by piecework , at so much per hundred sheep shorn , and so the champion shearer of the shed , the ringer , was he who could shear more sheep in a day than any- one else . Most squatters attached more ...
Page 214
... Shearers ' Union which , under the presidency of that ' magnificent opportunist's Spence , rapidly recruited ... shearer boys , the way they jog along . The life is one of luxury , it's truly something grand To be a roving shearer in ...
... Shearers ' Union which , under the presidency of that ' magnificent opportunist's Spence , rapidly recruited ... shearer boys , the way they jog along . The life is one of luxury , it's truly something grand To be a roving shearer in ...
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