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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... work he's giving , In spite of hardships , it's quite plain , Each one may get a living ; So in Australia stay awhile , And work away with vigour , For many a one will make his pile That's now a hard - up digger.24 By the beginning of ...
... work he's giving , In spite of hardships , it's quite plain , Each one may get a living ; So in Australia stay awhile , And work away with vigour , For many a one will make his pile That's now a hard - up digger.24 By the beginning of ...
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... Australian Telegraph Company to com- plete the link between Darwin and Java within eighteen months . The work on the Port Augusta - Darwin stretch was placed under the supervision of Charles Todd , the postmaster - general of South ...
... Australian Telegraph Company to com- plete the link between Darwin and Java within eighteen months . The work on the Port Augusta - Darwin stretch was placed under the supervision of Charles Todd , the postmaster - general of South ...
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... ( Sydney , 1972 ) , p . 109. Henry Lawson , ' Freedom on the Wallaby ' , Worker ( Brisbane ) , 16 May 1891. For this and later versions , see also Henry Lawson , Collected Verse , pp . 400-1 , 123-4 . For the 1894 version , see Worker ( ...
... ( Sydney , 1972 ) , p . 109. Henry Lawson , ' Freedom on the Wallaby ' , Worker ( Brisbane ) , 16 May 1891. For this and later versions , see also Henry Lawson , Collected Verse , pp . 400-1 , 123-4 . For the 1894 version , see Worker ( ...
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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