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... True , Dad and Dave were not pastoral workers , bushmen proper , 9 but poor selectors , ' stringybark cockatoos ' , who were sneered at by the men from farther out long before it became fashionable for townsmen to regard them as figures ...
... True , Dad and Dave were not pastoral workers , bushmen proper , 9 but poor selectors , ' stringybark cockatoos ' , who were sneered at by the men from farther out long before it became fashionable for townsmen to regard them as figures ...
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... true explanation , this concentration of Irish convicts in the mother colony was one more factor tending to make New South Wales the major seed - bed of the emerging Australian ethos . It also helps to explain the traditional feeling ...
... true explanation , this concentration of Irish convicts in the mother colony was one more factor tending to make New South Wales the major seed - bed of the emerging Australian ethos . It also helps to explain the traditional feeling ...
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... true associates of Bold Jack Donahoo . Now Donahoo was taken , all for a notorious crime , And sentenced to be hanged upon the gallows - tree so high . But when they came to Sydney gaol he left them in a stew , And when they came to ...
... true associates of Bold Jack Donahoo . Now Donahoo was taken , all for a notorious crime , And sentenced to be hanged upon the gallows - tree so high . But when they came to Sydney gaol he left them in a stew , And when they came to ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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