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 26
... society . They have little or no feeling of shame ; their behaviour would lead to the belief that they rather gloried in their degradation than otherwise . This is , perhaps , the most unpromising feature in their character . • The ...
... society . They have little or no feeling of shame ; their behaviour would lead to the belief that they rather gloried in their degradation than otherwise . This is , perhaps , the most unpromising feature in their character . • The ...
Page 33
... society , there is an explicit assumption that society itself is out of joint , and even a hint that in the new land society may be remoulded nearer to the heart's desire . Charles Mac- alister's Old Pioneering Days in the Sunny South ...
... society , there is an explicit assumption that society itself is out of joint , and even a hint that in the new land society may be remoulded nearer to the heart's desire . Charles Mac- alister's Old Pioneering Days in the Sunny South ...
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... society is no longer recognised ; and the man , who in former days might have pulled your boots off , or served you respectfully behind a counter , shakes hands with you , and very likely hails you by a nickname , or by no name at all ...
... society is no longer recognised ; and the man , who in former days might have pulled your boots off , or served you respectfully behind a counter , shakes hands with you , and very likely hails you by a nickname , or by no name at all ...
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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 Lads Diemen's Land diggers diggings districts Donahoo early economic emancipists Emigrant England English ethos fact feeling free immigrants frontier 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 Mundy native native-born never nineteenth century noble frontiersman noble savage nomad tribe Norfolk Island old hands outback outlook pastoral workers 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 up-country Van Diemen's Land Victoria W. C. Wentworth working-class writes wrote