“Distance is the continual theme and has been one of the main conditioning factors in Australian history. She was distant and dependent, a continent swinging on a long chain in antipodean darkness.”
— Marjorie Barnard, A History of Australia (1962)
“[At the time of Federation] Most Australians were still strangers in a new land. The land was only half won.”
— Geoffrey Blainey, A Land Half Won (1980)
“I have just finished writing a full-sized novel; title, Such is Life; scenery, and northern Vic.; temper, democratic; bias, offensively Australian.”
— Joseph Furphy, self-introduction to , published in The Bulletin (4 April 1897). Quoted in Iris Murdoch, (1962), ch. 9
“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”
— Douglas William Jerrold, "A Land of Plenty", The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (1859)
“Surely what the Americans have done by war, Australians can bring about in peace.”
— Sir Henry Parkes, Tenterfield Oration (24 October 1889)
“Australia began her political history as a crouching serf kept in subjection by the whip of a ruffian gaoler, and her progress, so far, consists merely in a change of masters.”
— The Bulletin, vol. 8, no. 416 (21 January 1888)

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Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British, incorporated as a city in 1904, and dissolved on 1 August 1995, when it was amalgamated into the regional municipality.

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Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British, incorporated as a city in 1904, and dissolved on 1 August 1995, when it was amalgamated into the regional municipality.

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