Found this while looking for American colonial info. Didn't realize it was about Australia until I printed it out and started reading it. Interesting reading though.
The Book of the Bush
Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial
Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others
Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16349
The Book of the Bush
Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial
Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others
Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16349