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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... squatters . Right through the nineteenth century there is abundant evidence of class hostility between pastoral ... squatter wrote of a neighbour : He was a native - born white , and had been a stockowner all his life . His parents had ...
... squatters . Right through the nineteenth century there is abundant evidence of class hostility between pastoral ... squatter wrote of a neighbour : He was a native - born white , and had been a stockowner all his life . His parents had ...
Page 95
... Squatters , managers , overseers , shanty keepers , and others with a relatively fixed abode and high income , naturally found it easier to attract wives from among the few marriageable girls available . The absolute shortage of women ...
... Squatters , managers , overseers , shanty keepers , and others with a relatively fixed abode and high income , naturally found it easier to attract wives from among the few marriageable girls available . The absolute shortage of women ...
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... squatters to give us a home , Now the land is unfettered and we may reside , In a place of our own by the clear ... squatters . ' And it came to pass , ' as Professor Shann wrote , ' that demagogues dispersed the public estate and ...
... squatters to give us a home , Now the land is unfettered and we may reside , In a place of our own by the clear ... squatters . ' And it came to pass , ' as Professor Shann wrote , ' that demagogues dispersed the public estate and ...
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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