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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... question the rights of the pastoralists to a property in their runs , but might ultimately call in question the institution of private property . Political equality might lead on to a demand for economic and social equality . So Duffy ...
... question the rights of the pastoralists to a property in their runs , but might ultimately call in question the institution of private property . Political equality might lead on to a demand for economic and social equality . So Duffy ...
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... question Mr Burke . In his eyes ' Mr Burke was the leading man of the party ' . Besides it was outside his range of vision to question the decision of a gentleman . The habits of a lifetime did not suddenly disappear in the Australian ...
... question Mr Burke . In his eyes ' Mr Burke was the leading man of the party ' . Besides it was outside his range of vision to question the decision of a gentleman . The habits of a lifetime did not suddenly disappear in the Australian ...
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... question too there was a great babble of tongues . Every Sunday afternoon , in the Sydney Domain and on the south bank of the Yarra in Melbourne , speakers presented every shade of opinion . A shoemaker in Sydney , in trumpet tones ...
... question too there was a great babble of tongues . Every Sunday afternoon , in the Sydney Domain and on the south bank of the Yarra in Melbourne , speakers presented every shade of opinion . A shoemaker in Sydney , in trumpet tones ...
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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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