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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... give power to coarse and commonplace people , to rich and ignorant parvenus who might have won their property qualification out of the profits of a Collingwood pigsty , or selling sly - grog or , worse still , having the good fortune to ...
... give power to coarse and commonplace people , to rich and ignorant parvenus who might have won their property qualification out of the profits of a Collingwood pigsty , or selling sly - grog or , worse still , having the good fortune to ...
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... give them . It was , he said , just the same as if they had entered into an understanding to be supplied with bread , and this bread was poisoned . The poisoning of the soul by the literature prescribed as reading material by the ...
... give them . It was , he said , just the same as if they had entered into an understanding to be supplied with bread , and this bread was poisoned . The poisoning of the soul by the literature prescribed as reading material by the ...
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... give instant and practical help to the Empire ' . Australians , Dalley said , must serve under ' the English flag ' . With a strong British navy the empire would be invulnerable and might laugh at the ill - will of all the nations of ...
... give instant and practical help to the Empire ' . Australians , Dalley said , must serve under ' the English flag ' . With a strong British navy the empire would be invulnerable and might laugh at the ill - will of all the nations of ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
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