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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... March in ways that left the diggers perplexed rather than tranquillized . As one wag put it in the Sydney Morning Herald , he also left the diggers ' irrepressibly thirsty ' , because listening to one of the ' swell mob ' spout his ...
... March in ways that left the diggers perplexed rather than tranquillized . As one wag put it in the Sydney Morning Herald , he also left the diggers ' irrepressibly thirsty ' , because listening to one of the ' swell mob ' spout his ...
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... March took up 564 acres in the Broughton area some thirty miles from Clare . March , a one - time farm labourer in Norfolk , England , on 5s a week , had migrated to South Australia in 1846 with his wife , who had been in service in ...
... March took up 564 acres in the Broughton area some thirty miles from Clare . March , a one - time farm labourer in Norfolk , England , on 5s a week , had migrated to South Australia in 1846 with his wife , who had been in service in ...
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... March 1868 twenty thousand people greeted the leaders of the Protestant community with wild enthusiasm . When ... March 1868 ; K. S. Inglis , The Australian Colonists ( Melbourne , 1974 ) , p . 99 ; T. L. Suttor , Hierarchy and Democracy ...
... March 1868 twenty thousand people greeted the leaders of the Protestant community with wild enthusiasm . When ... March 1868 ; K. S. Inglis , The Australian Colonists ( Melbourne , 1974 ) , p . 99 ; T. L. Suttor , Hierarchy and Democracy ...
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THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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