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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... outlook was more complex and more important . We saw in the last chapter that what was new in this outlook tended to spread upwards and outwards , from the convicts initially , and then from the ' lower ' sections of society generally ...
... outlook was more complex and more important . We saw in the last chapter that what was new in this outlook tended to spread upwards and outwards , from the convicts initially , and then from the ' lower ' sections of society generally ...
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... outlook which later came to be thought of as ' typically Australian ' : a comradely independence based on group solidarity and relative economic plenty , a rough and ready capacity for ' stringy - bark and green - hide ' improvisation ...
... outlook which later came to be thought of as ' typically Australian ' : a comradely independence based on group solidarity and relative economic plenty , a rough and ready capacity for ' stringy - bark and green - hide ' improvisation ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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