A History of Australia, Volume 4This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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Page 67
... Hotham could manage by way of acknowledgement was to bow stiffly and retire . A few days later at the Tradesmen's Ball he and his wife responded to colonial gush with faces which clearly said , ' noli me tangere ' . Lady Hotham was a ...
... Hotham could manage by way of acknowledgement was to bow stiffly and retire . A few days later at the Tradesmen's Ball he and his wife responded to colonial gush with faces which clearly said , ' noli me tangere ' . Lady Hotham was a ...
Page 72
... Hotham . Convinced that the people were the origin of all just power , they resolved that it was the inalienable right of every citizen to have a voice in making the laws he was called upon to obey . They resolved that taxation without ...
... Hotham . Convinced that the people were the origin of all just power , they resolved that it was the inalienable right of every citizen to have a voice in making the laws he was called upon to obey . They resolved that taxation without ...
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... Hotham , rash as ever , thanked Her Majesty's faithful subjects for ending the anarchy and confusion sown by ' strangers in their midst ' . Driven by that fatal tendency to over - react to every situation , he also issued instructions ...
... Hotham , rash as ever , thanked Her Majesty's faithful subjects for ending the anarchy and confusion sown by ' strangers in their midst ' . Driven by that fatal tendency to over - react to every situation , he also issued instructions ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
Copyright | |
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