When the people are cold and unb'lieving, when the hands of the tyrants are strong,
You must sacrifice life for the people before they'll come down on the wrong.
(The Fight At Eureka Stockade)
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A roving, roaming life is mine,Ever by field or flood --
For not far back in my father's line
Was a dash of the Gipsy blood.
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Lonely hut where drought's eternal, suffocating atmosphere
Where the God-forgotten hatter dreams of city life and beer.
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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 schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
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Oh, ghouls of business strife!
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And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
Henry Lawson
Think of it all -- of the life that is!
Henry Lawson
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