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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... worker's wage by the most arduous labour and without most of the creature comforts available to other members of the working class in industrial societies . Some said the lazy and the dissipated were failing while the industrious and ...
... worker's wage by the most arduous labour and without most of the creature comforts available to other members of the working class in industrial societies . Some said the lazy and the dissipated were failing while the industrious and ...
Page 353
... labour , just as the planters on the sugar fields of the north argued that without cheap ... Australian bush , or moved to the cities to swell the chorus chanting ... Worker ( Brisbane ) , 7 August 1890 , p . 4 ; S.M.H. , 19 November 1878 ...
... labour , just as the planters on the sugar fields of the north argued that without cheap ... Australian bush , or moved to the cities to swell the chorus chanting ... Worker ( Brisbane ) , 7 August 1890 , p . 4 ; S.M.H. , 19 November 1878 ...
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... Australian colonies as the place where virtue and industry led to the ... Australian society was composed either of men with a stake in the country or of men who ... worker welcomed the fifing , drumming , trumpeting , preaching and psalm ...
... Australian colonies as the place where virtue and industry led to the ... Australian society was composed either of men with a stake in the country or of men who ... worker welcomed the fifing , drumming , trumpeting , preaching and psalm ...
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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