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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... police attempted to arrest the ringleaders of the barbarous assault on the Chinese , they only managed to catch three of them . On Sunday 14 July 1861 , a traditional day on the diggings for the airing of grievances and the settling of ...
... police attempted to arrest the ringleaders of the barbarous assault on the Chinese , they only managed to catch three of them . On Sunday 14 July 1861 , a traditional day on the diggings for the airing of grievances and the settling of ...
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... police ; all his Irish gifts for vituperation and undying hostility were used in his descriptions of his feelings towards the police . For him they were those men who ' came into the bush with the intention of scattering pieces of me ...
... police ; all his Irish gifts for vituperation and undying hostility were used in his descriptions of his feelings towards the police . For him they were those men who ' came into the bush with the intention of scattering pieces of me ...
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... police of suffering from the same weakness that had bedevilled the force in New South Wales in the man - hunts for Ben Hall and the Clarke brothers , the same folly that had sapped the strength of the British army in the Crimea , namely ...
... police of suffering from the same weakness that had bedevilled the force in New South Wales in the man - hunts for Ben Hall and the Clarke brothers , the same folly that had sapped the strength of the British army in the Crimea , namely ...
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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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