Experience life as a drover on a cattle drive along South Australia's historic Oodnadatta Track. |
As construction worker, cattle drover, shoe shiner, or waiter in the village's only tea house. |
After sometimes months on the road, carefully herding the squatter's stock, the drover would ask for his cheque. |
He argued that the typical Australian frontiersman was not a small, individualist farmer but a shearer or drover, and that his outlook was not individualist but collectivist. |
Taffy was the name of this fellow from Denbigh, in Wales, and he was a drover. |
The cartoon was accompanied by an imagined conversation between the unhappy bull and its drover, the then Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli. |