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“here is nothing to see, however, and not a soul to meet. You might walk for twenty miles along this track without being able to fix a point in your mind, unless you are a bushman. This is because of…

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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public…

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“Do you think now and then, now or then, in the whirl Of the city, while London is new, Of the hut in the…

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On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as…

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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of…

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It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads…

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The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd…

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“Ah! The world is a new and a wide one to you, But the world to your sweetheart is shut, For a change never…

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“We fight it down, and we live it down, or we bear it bravely well, But the best men die of a broken heart…

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Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm…

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Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what…

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“The fields are fair in autumn yet, and the sun's still shining there, but we bow our heads and we brood and fret, because…

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It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

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