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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... Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council the elector should cross out on a ballot - paper the names of the candidates for whom he did not intend to vote . Chapman was one of those philosophical radicals with an itch to improve ...
... Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council the elector should cross out on a ballot - paper the names of the candidates for whom he did not intend to vote . Chapman was one of those philosophical radicals with an itch to improve ...
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Charles Manning Hope Clark. Legislative Assembly on 27 August 1857 , and an act to extend the right of voting which ... Legislative Council . They sensed that a rigid application of the democratic principle of one man one vote might not ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. Legislative Assembly on 27 August 1857 , and an act to extend the right of voting which ... Legislative Council . They sensed that a rigid application of the democratic principle of one man one vote might not ...
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... Legislative Council . The following day , 28 July , the treasurer proclaimed in the Government Gazette that as the amount of money legally available to pay the salaries and wages of public servants was inadequate , payment must be ...
... Legislative Council . The following day , 28 July , the treasurer proclaimed in the Government Gazette that as the amount of money legally available to pay the salaries and wages of public servants was inadequate , payment must be ...
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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