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The personality hive mind of certain work forces and industries is real.

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George Washington Lambert - Weighing the Fleece, 1921, oil on canvas George Washington Thomas Lambert ARA (1873 – 1930) was an Australian painter, illustrator, and cartoonist. He is remembered as a portrait painting and as a war artist during the First World War. Lambert was born in St Petersburg and raised in Württemberg, Germany and then Somerset, England. At the age of 14 (1887), he migrated to Sydney, Australia with his grandparents. The young Lambert worked as a jackeroo on rural station properties and developed an appreciation for horses and rural scenes. In 1894, he first started exhibiting his paintings and in the next year he started to contributing cartoons to the Bulletin. Between 1896 and 1900, Lambert studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney. He spent a year in Paris (1901) before moving to London where he exhibited at the Royal Academy. Lambert was appointed an official Australian war artist in 1917 during the First World War. He visited in Gallipoli and Palestine. Lambert then returned to Australia. Much of his work was focused on portraiture and, in in 1927, he won the Archibald.

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The Shearers

(On my travels)

Thargomindah Shearers Shindig

The beginners took on average 77 seconds to shear one sheep. The professionals took on average 44 seconds to shear. One gun shearer took 27.3 seconds to shear a sheep. They work 8 hour shifts with a break every 2 hours.

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Registration

(On my travels)

Shearers registering for the Shindig, Thargomindah

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Sakagen Brand Pruning Shearers P-180 - Juverna International

Product Length 180 mm Sakagen was founded in 1903 and has consistently manufactured high quality products by combining traditional techniques with the newest equipment for over a century. Sakagen has won the trust of many satisfied customers worldwide, working hard to create quality products with style. Sakagen has an excellent reputation in manufacturing scissors for … Continue reading "Sakagen Brand Pruning Shearers P-180"

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Tattersall’s Hotel, Barringun

Annie Lack behind the bar of Tattersall’s Hotel, Barringun NSW. Photo: Bruce Howard.

BY John Larkins*

IN the good old days when the shearing shed at Tinnenburra was the biggest in the world, Annie Lack’s arms grew tired just opening beet bottles. But the shed is disused, silent now. The shearers have gone – but Annie, in her seventies, remains behind the bar of Tattersall’s Hotel at Barringun, a…

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