The pattern of economic development from the 1830s to 1900 can be summed up in one word: ROLLER COASTER. Cities started to grow. Melbourne although exploded quicker than Sydney, some what slowed right down at a quicker rate. The first bridge in Melbourne was a bow-string iron construction built in 1854 at the end of William Street with others following in pursuit. Stores started to specialise in certain goods and awnings. Sewage started to be run though the city. In Sydney the land surrounding Oxford Street was divided into sections, with hopes of forming Sydney in a grid, although they were not completely successful, as Oxford Street is bent.
One way that the cities were made more respectable in the Victorian period was that gentiles moved into the area. The middle and upper classes didn't want to share parks with the working class because they were scared they would spread disease for hygiene purposes. Cities are important for the work of Australian painters. Jeffrey Smart's two main inspirations were TS Elliot and his birth city of Adelaide. Both of which helped him with his style of emptiness and emotional detachment.
In the 19th-century city, prostitutes occupied a variety of positions. The historical impression of prostitution notoriously has a shady storyline suspect to more probing. Prostitutes are commonly depicted as being very sexually promiscuous. Some historians suggest that the history of prostitution is largely oral.
The outback was regarded as an anecdote for urban decadence. It's really important to understand who were the different explorers for e.g. Bruce and Willis. The national sediment of the bush life will be forever ingrained in the image of Australia. The bushman's life was hard. As the bushman is resting in his 'dingy little office, where a stingy ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall'. Yet under these terrible conditions, the bushman would gain character but more importantly an identity. The bushmen's health-related concern about sunburn in Australian society during the 1850s may have contributed to the formation of its national identity as a sunburned country that Australia is so fondly described as in literature, for example, Dorothy Mackellar's poem 'I love a Sunburned Country'. Many people go missing in the bush and have done so throughout history (take for example the Stolen Generations).
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