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Rail Is Right: All Aboard for the Outback |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: John Bremer And Anne Gardner |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 4,132 Words, 22,393 Characters |
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Sydney is built round the magnificent natural harbor of Port Jackson--not Botany Bay--and the view from Circular Quay is dominated by the immense Harbour Bridge to the left and the Opera House to the right. The Opera House, opened in 1973, symbolizes the sails of the First Fleet (and its successors) that brought the original European settlers to Australia. The Harbour Bridge, opened forty years earlier in 1933, symbolizes the conquering of the land.
The land was the challenge. How to tame it, cultivate it? How to traverse it? How to survive in it? The sea was a relatively known quantity, and it is still true that the five major cities of Australia are all on the coast, settled from the sea. This reversed the British presumption that the land was known, friendly, dependable, predictabl...
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...er Lawson wrote. Perhaps the railways did change Australian life, but the railway men who still travel the Indian-Pacific, the Ghan, the Prospector, the Queen slander, and the Capricorner are more like their early predecessors, who sang,
Stringy-bark will light your fire Green-hide will never fail yer, String-bark and green-hide Are the mainstay of Australia. The spirit is the same.
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