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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Page 139
... gave Cowper , Robertson , and Parkes and men of like mind on the land question a majority in the Legislative Assembly . Cowper again formed a ministry with Jack Robertson , the member for the Upper Hunter , as secretary for lands . But ...
... gave Cowper , Robertson , and Parkes and men of like mind on the land question a majority in the Legislative Assembly . Cowper again formed a ministry with Jack Robertson , the member for the Upper Hunter , as secretary for lands . But ...
Page 153
... gave them fish . In return Mr Burke gave the blacks beads and matches . For a brief season Mr Burke became god - like , a lord of cre- ation.17 Mr Burke still spoke of those consummate food - gatherers as men who might try to ' bully or ...
... gave them fish . In return Mr Burke gave the blacks beads and matches . For a brief season Mr Burke became god - like , a lord of cre- ation.17 Mr Burke still spoke of those consummate food - gatherers as men who might try to ' bully or ...
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... gave at Cambridge in 1823 of the capacity to be found in native - born Australians , his assertion of the rights of the people of New South Wales to the common privileges of Britons , and the establishment of the University of Sydney ...
... gave at Cambridge in 1823 of the capacity to be found in native - born Australians , his assertion of the rights of the people of New South Wales to the common privileges of Britons , and the establishment of the University of Sydney ...
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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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