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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... gold . " On 3 June John Hardy , supported by ten armed men , set up his tent at Ophir where human greed had converted a wilderness into the appearance of a blackfellows ' camp in fourteen days . Hardy believed that the respectable and ...
... gold . " On 3 June John Hardy , supported by ten armed men , set up his tent at Ophir where human greed had converted a wilderness into the appearance of a blackfellows ' camp in fourteen days . Hardy believed that the respectable and ...
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... gold - gold in abundance . ' William Campbell announced on 8 July the discovery of gold at Clunes . Louis Michel , a Melbourne hotel proprietor who resented the flight of his regular drinkers to the New South Wales fields , found enough ...
... gold - gold in abundance . ' William Campbell announced on 8 July the discovery of gold at Clunes . Louis Michel , a Melbourne hotel proprietor who resented the flight of his regular drinkers to the New South Wales fields , found enough ...
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... gold - diggings . The gold coin which was the basis of the paper currency was being withdrawn by the emigrants who left the province for Victoria . The banks from whose coffers the coin was taken were compelled to contract their issues ...
... gold - diggings . The gold coin which was the basis of the paper currency was being withdrawn by the emigrants who left the province for Victoria . The banks from whose coffers the coin was taken were compelled to contract their issues ...
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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