| She was born in NSW in 1879, a daughter of the squattocracy, the archetypal Australian bush girl. |
| By the end of the nineteenth century, portraits of the Australian squattocracy often incorporated illustrated histories of their properties. |
| That group expressed Utopian hopes for small-farm settlement, and hatred for the squattocracy. |
| 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. |
| They were set against the squattocracy and underwent a convulsive change in social values and patterns. |
| 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? |
