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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... that bribery of officials was commonplace and that the magistrates were bound in an ' unholy compact ' with unsavoury publicans such as Bentley , a crowd of angry diggers gathered near the Eureka Hotel on 17 October to discuss the ...
... that bribery of officials was commonplace and that the magistrates were bound in an ' unholy compact ' with unsavoury publicans such as Bentley , a crowd of angry diggers gathered near the Eureka Hotel on 17 October to discuss the ...
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In that October of 1861 , as enthusiasts in Sydney were toasting the coming of a golden age , news reached Melbourne and Sydney that Robert O'Hara Burke , William John Wills and poor Charley Gray had perished in the centre of Australia ...
In that October of 1861 , as enthusiasts in Sydney were toasting the coming of a golden age , news reached Melbourne and Sydney that Robert O'Hara Burke , William John Wills and poor Charley Gray had perished in the centre of Australia ...
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Manhood suffrage and the selection acts would now cause them to wither and die . He had searched in vain for a constitutional a device with which to dam up the flood of democracy . He left for England on 22 October ...
Manhood suffrage and the selection acts would now cause them to wither and die . He had searched in vain for a constitutional a device with which to dam up the flood of democracy . He left for England on 22 October ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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