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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... five foot high , his voice so gentle that he had to be told rather rudely to ' speak up ' , began by saying that as one of Australia's native sons he might be expected to speak with something like real feeling on a question connected ...
... five foot high , his voice so gentle that he had to be told rather rudely to ' speak up ' , began by saying that as one of Australia's native sons he might be expected to speak with something like real feeling on a question connected ...
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... five ' . " By five o'clock on the following night five hundred persons assembled in front of Parliament House , most of them wearing the red ribbon suggested by the man the Argus called ' that wretched Geelong rebel Brodie ' . Mr Battan ...
... five ' . " By five o'clock on the following night five hundred persons assembled in front of Parliament House , most of them wearing the red ribbon suggested by the man the Argus called ' that wretched Geelong rebel Brodie ' . Mr Battan ...
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... five members who were to hold office for five years . All subsequent nominations were to be made by the governor of Queensland , those so nominated retaining their membership for life . The Order in Council prescribed that for elections ...
... five members who were to hold office for five years . All subsequent nominations were to be made by the governor of Queensland , those so nominated retaining their membership for life . The Order in Council prescribed that for elections ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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