A History of Australia, Volume 5Cambridge University Press, 1981 - Australia |
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Page 99
... hunters for the loaves and fishes of public life . Some said it was caused by flash speculation : some said it was all a just punishment for the egregious folly of excessive overseas borrowing.2 23 The unemployed , swollen in numbers in ...
... hunters for the loaves and fishes of public life . Some said it was caused by flash speculation : some said it was all a just punishment for the egregious folly of excessive overseas borrowing.2 23 The unemployed , swollen in numbers in ...
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... Hunter , How the Goldfields United Australia ( in Kalgoorlie Mayoral Report , 1916 ) ; J. S. Battye , op . cit . , pp . 448-9 ; J. A. La Nauze ( ed . ) , op . cit . , pp . 111-13 . On 21 May 1900 Joseph Chamberlain introduced into the ...
... Hunter , How the Goldfields United Australia ( in Kalgoorlie Mayoral Report , 1916 ) ; J. S. Battye , op . cit . , pp . 448-9 ; J. A. La Nauze ( ed . ) , op . cit . , pp . 111-13 . On 21 May 1900 Joseph Chamberlain introduced into the ...
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... hunters swarmed around him pestering for a federal plum to put in their empty baskets . Bernhard Wise raised the possibility of his being the first High Commissioner in London . With the desperation of a man who felt he did not deserve ...
... hunters swarmed around him pestering for a federal plum to put in their empty baskets . Bernhard Wise raised the possibility of his being the first High Commissioner in London . With the desperation of a man who felt he did not deserve ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Copyright | |
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