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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Page 37
... Empire Henry Parkes charged Wentworth with presenting a ' wretched patch work of political absurdities ' , whose tendencies were all oligarchical , a constitution ' more atrocious than ridiculous ' , ' mummery ' with which to ' befool ...
... Empire Henry Parkes charged Wentworth with presenting a ' wretched patch work of political absurdities ' , whose tendencies were all oligarchical , a constitution ' more atrocious than ridiculous ' , ' mummery ' with which to ' befool ...
Page 97
... Empire asked whether Parkes was about to go the way of other liberals when they got on in the world , and forget his antecedents and ape the tyrannical aristocrats they had been denouncing for so long . Daniel Deniehy , with that eye of ...
... Empire asked whether Parkes was about to go the way of other liberals when they got on in the world , and forget his antecedents and ape the tyrannical aristocrats they had been denouncing for so long . Daniel Deniehy , with that eye of ...
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... empire loyalists such as Sir Alfred Stephen were caught in the centre of a turbulent mob and almost crushed . On the platform were all the leading citizens of Sydney , including members of both houses of parliament , men like Henry ...
... empire loyalists such as Sir Alfred Stephen were caught in the centre of a turbulent mob and almost crushed . On the platform were all the leading citizens of Sydney , including members of both houses of parliament , men like Henry ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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