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'Traditionally, national character in Australia as elsewhere, has been the domain of the historian and the political scientist rather than the psychologist. Systematic research data on Australian national character are almost non-existent, and much of what has been said and written in the literature about Australian national character can be most appropriately described as a 'popular concept' approach to the subject. This would be national character in its most original meaning and this approach has been used by historians and other writers [Baker, 1959; Coleman 1963; Lawrence, 1922; Palmer, 1954; Pringle, 1958) to reflect their observations of psychological traits or features thought to be characteristic of Australian citizens. While usually impressionistic rather than precise, such essayistic descriptions of national character nonetheless often contain much truth.' (Thesis description)
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- The Dreadnought of the Darling 1910 selected work prose
- The Story of Anzac from the Outbreak of War to the End of the First Phase of the Gallipoli Campaign, May 4, 1915 1921 single work prose
- They're a Weird Mob 1957 single work novel
- The Emigrant Family, or, The Story of an Australian Settler 1849 single work novel prose
- Circus at World's End : An Assembly of Verse 1947 selected work poetry
- Kangaroo 1923 single work novel
- The Fortunes of Richard Mahony 1917 single work novel
- Poems 1957 selected work poetry