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Page 122
He had been born in Melbourne in 1851 into a family which prepared him for his role as the quintessence of the average man . He had done nothing to add to the uninteresting appearance which nature had given him .
He had been born in Melbourne in 1851 into a family which prepared him for his role as the quintessence of the average man . He had done nothing to add to the uninteresting appearance which nature had given him .
Page 152
It was not prepared to accept the work of the conciliators and compromisers of the Sydney convention . It was not prepared to pay any price for federation . Equal representation of the states in the Senate was far too high a price to ...
It was not prepared to accept the work of the conciliators and compromisers of the Sydney convention . It was not prepared to pay any price for federation . Equal representation of the states in the Senate was far too high a price to ...
Page 304
It looked as though he had thrown overboard the graduated land tax : and he was prepared to throw away the whole of the welfare programme which had made his party indistinguishable in social policy from the Labor Party .
It looked as though he had thrown overboard the graduated land tax : and he was prepared to throw away the whole of the welfare programme which had made his party indistinguishable in social policy from the Labor Party .
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Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 5 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Feb 2009 |
| ISBN | 0522842232, 9780522842234 |
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