In Australia, squatters were large landholders and, like the large plantation owners of the Old South, a kind of aristocracy, referred to as the squattocracy. |
The prejudices of the home counties squirearchy had clearly taken root among the Australian squattocracy. |
Is it the squattocracy joyously celebrating the fact that the working man's club has been knocked back in its place, by it doesn't matter who? |
You've also got the squattocracy in this novel, and the huge fortunes which were being made in the pastoral country around Melbourne and around Geelong. |
He was born in London, but his family was of the Australian squattocracy. |
For the next seven years, while Jack rode the wallaby track alone, she based herself with friends in Bathurst and cultivated the local squattocracy. |