The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural AustraliaThe Vision Splendid seeks to restore rural Australia to a central place in Australian history by showing how it has shaped Australian culture. It focuses on the culture of work and leisure and the changing conceptions of the Bush in the Australian mind from the late eighteenth century onwards. It maps, for the first time, the development of a set of cultural values and institutions in nineteenth-century rural Australia. |
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Page 201
... settlers were insolvent . Marilyn Lake has estimated that by 1938 half the soldier settlers in Victoria had abandoned their holdings . And the cost of amelioration measures in Victoria and elsewhere was enormous . In 1929 losses on a ...
... settlers were insolvent . Marilyn Lake has estimated that by 1938 half the soldier settlers in Victoria had abandoned their holdings . And the cost of amelioration measures in Victoria and elsewhere was enormous . In 1929 losses on a ...
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... settlers did not have a moral right to be a permanent financial burden on the community.19 But in the end the authorities were forced to acknowledge that there were more deep - seated reasons than this indeed , that some fundamental ...
... settlers did not have a moral right to be a permanent financial burden on the community.19 But in the end the authorities were forced to acknowledge that there were more deep - seated reasons than this indeed , that some fundamental ...
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... settlers , only 4 per cent left or were removed from their holdings by 1962. Subsequently , drought , the fall in wool prices , and the 1973 oil crisis that raised the cost of farm equipment and fuel left many soldier settlers in debt ...
... settlers , only 4 per cent left or were removed from their holdings by 1962. Subsequently , drought , the fall in wool prices , and the 1973 oil crisis that raised the cost of farm equipment and fuel left many soldier settlers in debt ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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