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Page 11
... Cabbage- tree Hat Mob ' . The cabbage - tree palm ( Livistona australis ) grew only in the rain - forests between the Great Dividing Range and the Pacific , being very common in the Illawarra district which was one of the earliest ...
... Cabbage- tree Hat Mob ' . The cabbage - tree palm ( Livistona australis ) grew only in the rain - forests between the Great Dividing Range and the Pacific , being very common in the Illawarra district which was one of the earliest ...
Page 12
... hat had already become standard wear among bushmen and , like the stockwhip , a potent symbol of outback values . Thus the cabbage- tree hat migrated with the frontier to the western plains , many hundreds of miles from the nearest ...
... hat had already become standard wear among bushmen and , like the stockwhip , a potent symbol of outback values . Thus the cabbage- tree hat migrated with the frontier to the western plains , many hundreds of miles from the nearest ...
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... Cabbage - tree Hat Mob ' come from educated , middle - class immigrants , whose own more polished manners may often have been such as to arouse the very worst in the native - born . Here , as so often elsewhere , the testi- mony of ...
... Cabbage - tree Hat Mob ' come from educated , middle - class immigrants , whose own more polished manners may often have been such as to arouse the very worst in the native - born . Here , as so often elsewhere , the testi- mony of ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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