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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... become more urgently necessary than heretofore to place full powers of self - government in the hands of a people thus advanced in wealth and pros- perity ' . He was therefore inviting the Legislative Councils of those colonies to draft ...
... become more urgently necessary than heretofore to place full powers of self - government in the hands of a people thus advanced in wealth and pros- perity ' . He was therefore inviting the Legislative Councils of those colonies to draft ...
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... become a minister in the government of New South Wales . Public office fed both his vanity and his pocket , those two passions which made him more and more a man of expediency rather than a man of principle . Lies , promises , character ...
... become a minister in the government of New South Wales . Public office fed both his vanity and his pocket , those two passions which made him more and more a man of expediency rather than a man of principle . Lies , promises , character ...
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... become a figure of fun , a man in whom the gap between profession and performance had become unbridgeable . The cartoonists mocked him as a one - time chartist who had been corrupted by power . Others , lacking the eye of pity , saw him ...
... become a figure of fun , a man in whom the gap between profession and performance had become unbridgeable . The cartoonists mocked him as a one - time chartist who had been corrupted by power . Others , lacking the eye of pity , saw him ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
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