Egalitatianism and australian battlers against authority
...They stick out in all our memories as the gallant heroes who defied a nations politics, laws and common way of life. The greatest of this kind of battler worth noting is Ned Kelly, Australia’s beloved, and nutorious bushranger of the 18th century. Between him and his group of friends he defined the words ‘Australian battler’ for all those to come. All of the battlers against authority have displayed one outstanding thing ,defiance. Defiance can be defined as "the tendency of people to maintain their conviction in the face of verbal , moral or physical attempts at conformity." Australians have exhibited such defiance for the full 200 years of their country. In the colonial era, Aborigines defied English proclamations of governorship. Likewise, Convicts were flogged mercilessly defied their tormentors the police by remaining silent thus denying them the pleasure of seeing pain. Defiance was prominent amongst the bushrangers who broke the law. Defiance was equally strong amongst the Bushranger's sympathisers who defied the indignant banter of newspapers and the authority by celebrating the bushrangers in song. It was also strong in the female factories where women frequently "exposed her person" to the onlookers who judged them of being of 'loose' morality and the authority who banned such doings. "The true Aussie battler and his wife thrust dogg...