Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land"Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land is a major new account that places Australia's history fully within a global context, drawing on sources from the United States, Britain, South Africa, and Canada, as well as within Australia itself." "In a compelling narrative, acclaimed historian Frank Welsh traces the history of the land from scattered convict settlements to the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 and on to today's thriving independent nation, exposing many national myths in the process. This book also explores the dark side of Australia's history: the long-continued "White Australia" policy, which bedeviled foreign policy for more than a century; the still-tortured official relationship with the Aboriginal peoples; the subordination of women; and the flaws in the constitution. Also examined is Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbors, and its isolation from Britain and the United States, its traditional allies."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 123
... continued to argue for revising his local government scheme which would give the councils only the right to criticize legislation proposed by officials . The discussion continued without effect until overshadowed by another question ...
... continued to argue for revising his local government scheme which would give the councils only the right to criticize legislation proposed by officials . The discussion continued without effect until overshadowed by another question ...
Page 263
... continued success to the coalition between a liberal middle class and radicals concerned with land legislation . Conservative opposition in the Assembly was only feeble , and was concentrated , as the framers of the Victorian ...
... continued success to the coalition between a liberal middle class and radicals concerned with land legislation . Conservative opposition in the Assembly was only feeble , and was concentrated , as the framers of the Victorian ...
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... continued for three and a half years . As with the British Labour movement , advancing much more slowly than that in Australia , socialism was debated rather than implemented ; what mattered was to improve workers ' conditions rather ...
... continued for three and a half years . As with the British Labour movement , advancing much more slowly than that in Australia , socialism was debated rather than implemented ; what mattered was to improve workers ' conditions rather ...
Contents
Introduction | xxxi |
Terra Australis Nondum Cognita | xl |
The Land and the People 13 | xl |
Copyright | |
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