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99. G. Davison, ‘Sydney and the Bush: An Urban Context for the
Australian Legend’, Historical Studies, 18, 71 (1978), 191–209.
100. The Sydney Bulletin was established in 1880 as a weekly, and
achieved a circulation of 80,000 by 1890. Apart from its
racial-radical-republican politics, it made a point of publishing the
work of local writers. Its editor from 1886 to 1902 was the republican
J. F. Archibald. See G. Serle, From Deserts the Prophets Came: the
Creative Spirit in Australia 1788–1972 (Melbourne, 1973), pp. 60–1.
101. Irving, Nation,p.132.
102. For the link between racism and egalitarianism, see Terry Irving,
‘Labour, State and Nation-building in Australia’, in S. Berger and A.
Smith (eds.), Nationalism, Labour and Ethnicity 1870–1939
(Manchester, 1999), p. 214.
103. C. N. Connolly, ‘Class, Birthplace, Loyalty: Australian Attitudes
to the Boer War’, Historical Studies, 18, 71 (1978), 221.
104. See, for example, the opinions of J. F. Archibald and Rolf
Boldrewood in I. Turner (ed.), The Australian Dream (Melbourne,
1968), pp. 270, 142.
105. For the panic over a declining birth-rate, which led to the
appointment of a Royal Commission, see C. L. Bacchi, ‘The
Nature-Nurture Debate in Australia 1900–1914’, Historical Studies,
19, 75 (1980), 200.
106. Connolly, ‘Class, Birthplace, Loyalty’, pp. 213–17.
107. From Deakin (see J. A. La Nauze, Alfred Deakin (Melbourne,
1965), vol. II, p. 482)totheBulletin (Meany (ed.), Australia,p.145).
108. See chapter 7.
109. Australia, it was remarked in the Colonial Office, was
‘ill-qualified to deal with native questions’. Meany (ed.), Australia,
pp. 192ff.
110. For the angry reaction of the (London-based) Australian
Mercantile Land and Finance Company (employing a capital of
around £2.3 million) to the absentee land tax imposed by the Labor