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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... woman was brought before the Police Magistrate's Court for prowling about the streets in a state of ' dancing drunkenness ' ; another woman was accused of climbing over the fence into the soldiers ' barracks and threatening to knock a ...
... woman was brought before the Police Magistrate's Court for prowling about the streets in a state of ' dancing drunkenness ' ; another woman was accused of climbing over the fence into the soldiers ' barracks and threatening to knock a ...
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... woman : the thread in the clothing factory did not cause the woman to be an inconstant lover . Nor did congregating large numbers in work - rooms produce swarms of profligates or play havoc with the morals of tailoresses and all those ...
... woman : the thread in the clothing factory did not cause the woman to be an inconstant lover . Nor did congregating large numbers in work - rooms produce swarms of profligates or play havoc with the morals of tailoresses and all those ...
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... woman was to get married , and , having entered on that blessed state , her duty then was to love , honour , cherish and obey her husband . 55 As the prime exemplar of the great Australian paradox , that the country which was a pioneer ...
... woman was to get married , and , having entered on that blessed state , her duty then was to love , honour , cherish and obey her husband . 55 As the prime exemplar of the great Australian paradox , that the country which was a pioneer ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
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