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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... general and governor - in - chief of the territory of New South Wales and its dependencies , proclaimed to those ' shrimps ' and ' varmints ' and ' bouncers ' of Ophir and Australia at large that gold in its natural places of deposit ...
... general and governor - in - chief of the territory of New South Wales and its dependencies , proclaimed to those ' shrimps ' and ' varmints ' and ' bouncers ' of Ophir and Australia at large that gold in its natural places of deposit ...
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... general , John Hubert Plunkett , still wearing on his face a benevolent ... Governor FitzRoy after a visit to the western fields in March 1852 that he ... general merely corroborated what he himself had so often declared that there was ...
... general , John Hubert Plunkett , still wearing on his face a benevolent ... Governor FitzRoy after a visit to the western fields in March 1852 that he ... general merely corroborated what he himself had so often declared that there was ...
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... general and governor - in - chief , stripped of most of his constitutional powers and his patronage , would be reduced to the hollow distinction of playing the leading role in the ceremonial charades of the parade - ground and the ...
... general and governor - in - chief , stripped of most of his constitutional powers and his patronage , would be reduced to the hollow distinction of playing the leading role in the ceremonial charades of the parade - ground and the ...
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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