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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... railway to improve communication between Melbourne and the bay . At the same time businessmen were complaining that communications between Sydney and Melbourne by land often stood still for weeks together because of the state of the ...
... railway to improve communication between Melbourne and the bay . At the same time businessmen were complaining that communications between Sydney and Melbourne by land often stood still for weeks together because of the state of the ...
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... railway construction in Western Australia : lines were completed between Geraldton and Northampton in July 1879 , and between Fremantle , Perth and Guildford in March 1881.40 In 1885 the western railway in Queensland on the way to the ...
... railway construction in Western Australia : lines were completed between Geraldton and Northampton in July 1879 , and between Fremantle , Perth and Guildford in March 1881.40 In 1885 the western railway in Queensland on the way to the ...
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... railway line between Riversdale and Camberwell was sold in 1887 for £ 20 000 , then for £ 32 000 , then for £ 62 000 to the Real Estate Company , the directors of which were hopeful in March of 1888 of clearing at least £ 50 000 from ...
... railway line between Riversdale and Camberwell was sold in 1887 for £ 20 000 , then for £ 32 000 , then for £ 62 000 to the Real Estate Company , the directors of which were hopeful in March of 1888 of clearing at least £ 50 000 from ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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