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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... Imperial parliament for their approval or rejection . The ink had scarcely dried on the signatures to the Declaration , Protest and Remonstrance on 1 May when the Legislative Council on 20 May 1853 asked Wentworth to chair a select ...
... Imperial parliament for their approval or rejection . The ink had scarcely dried on the signatures to the Declaration , Protest and Remonstrance on 1 May when the Legislative Council on 20 May 1853 asked Wentworth to chair a select ...
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... imperial utterance Of God for ever ; and thy feet are set Where evermore , through all the days and years There rolls the grand hymn of the deathless wave . But by 1882 , as earlier with Harpur , Gordon and Clarke , man delighted him ...
... imperial utterance Of God for ever ; and thy feet are set Where evermore , through all the days and years There rolls the grand hymn of the deathless wave . But by 1882 , as earlier with Harpur , Gordon and Clarke , man delighted him ...
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... imperial connection , summoned a public meeting of citizens on 3 June 1887 to consider the desirability of feasting the schoolchildren on 20 June in honour of their beloved Queen . To the chagrin of those whose hearts were on fire with ...
... imperial connection , summoned a public meeting of citizens on 3 June 1887 to consider the desirability of feasting the schoolchildren on 20 June in honour of their beloved Queen . To the chagrin of those whose hearts were on fire with ...
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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