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Decorated Float in the St. Patrick's Day Procession, Warwick, ca. 1910

Image of a St. Patrick's Day float bearing a banner advocating Irish nationalist sentiments.

Establishing the Commonwealth Culture: A Distinctly Australian Event

This article written by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 2010 displays a collection of primary source materials pertaining to the Australian Federation Parade in Sydney in 1901. Of particular interest are the groups of people present…

‘Bards of the Backblocks: Knights of Chance’, The Bulletin, 26 May 1900.

Knights of Chance (26 May, 1900), p. 3.jpg

To describe everyday life in colonial Australia as entirely rural-based in 1900 would be misleading, for the country’s major urban centres, particularly Sydney and Melbourne, housed much of the population and fuelled its commercial vitality…

Tags: Adventuring, Australian national character, backblocks, bard, city, E. J. Brady (1869-1952), federation, freedom, knight, lance, nationalism, New South Wales, NSW, romanticisation, rural economy

Heed Not, Poem by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, protests against what he sees as the 'toadies knighthood' in this verse. He berates those (English) in Australia who seek to…

The King I, Poem by Henry Lawson

It is likely Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, wrote this poem about the death of King Edward VII 1901 - 1910, who reigned for 10 years. Lawson portrays the King as a…

Tags: Australian, Australian Nationalism Movement, Australian poetry, bush poet, bush poetry, Henry Lawson, kingship, masculinity, nationalism, poem, poet, poetry

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Decorated Float in the St. Patrick's Day Procession, Warwick, ca. 1910

Establishing the Commonwealth Culture: A Distinctly Australian Event

‘Bards of the Backblocks: Knights of Chance’, The Bulletin, 26 May 1900.

Heed Not, Poem by Henry Lawson

The King I, Poem by Henry Lawson

"The Old Squire Sir William rode to Virland," Henry Lawson

Queen Hilda of Virland, poem by Henry Lawson

Our Mistress and our Queen, poem by Henry Lawson