Traditions and Transitions folk narrative in the contemporary world
16-20
July 2001 The University of Melbourne, Australia
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Federation in Australia has usually been studied by looking at colonial and inter-colonial socio-political and cultural institutions. Not surprisingly it has frequently been characterised as an elitist enterprise with limited popular support. We argue to the contrary that Australian federation was grounded in widespread nationalist sentiment that dates from earlier decades. We focus on three communities established in the 1850s and 1860s through the gold rushes in the colony of Victoria. By looking at stories, poems and obituaries published in local newspapers in the 1880s we show how members of the gold rush generation celebrated pioneering. It was these folk histories in the little republics that collectively constituted the cultural foundations of Australia’s Federal Republic.
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