They'll be royal times in Sydney for the Cuff and Collar Push,
They'll be lots of dreary drivel and clap-trap
From the men who own Australia, but who never knew the Bush.

Henry Lawson - 1901

The Digger's unspoken, unbreakable creed was the miner's and bushman's, "Stand by your mate."

C.E.W. Bean, The AIF in France 1918

Lord Kitchener has been pleased to say that than the young Australian there is no finer fighting material in the world. But the comprehensiveness of his report…makes abundantly clear…our appalling feebleness.

J.H.M. Abbott, Lone Hand, 1 June 1910

Many a man lying out there at Pozières or in the low scrub at Gallipoli has thought in his last moments: "Well - well - it's over; but in Australia they will be proud of this."

C.E.W. Bean, In your hands, Australians

From shearing shed and cattle run,
From Broome to Hobson's Bay,
Each native-born Australian son,
Stands straighter up today.

A.B. Paterson, We're All Australians Now, 1915

The name Royal Hotel…passes unnoticed and ungrowled at, even by Bush republicans. The Royal Hotel at Bourke was kept by an Irishman, one O'Donohoo, who was Union to the backbone.

Henry Lawson, Lord Douglas, 1901