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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... schools financed and administered by the State : they must go it alone , raise money , build their own schools , train and appoint their own teachers , and prescribe their own reading books . Henceforth Catholics would have to pay taxes ...
... schools financed and administered by the State : they must go it alone , raise money , build their own schools , train and appoint their own teachers , and prescribe their own reading books . Henceforth Catholics would have to pay taxes ...
Page 282
... schools was to cease as from 1 January 1874. In every state school ( i.e. school financed and administered by the State ) secular instruction only should be given . Four hours at least should be set apart during each school day for ...
... schools was to cease as from 1 January 1874. In every state school ( i.e. school financed and administered by the State ) secular instruction only should be given . Four hours at least should be set apart during each school day for ...
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... schools . Such schools might open in the morning at least a quarter of an hour before the time fixed for such secular instruction to commence , for the purpose of reading portions of the Holy Scriptures in the authorized or Douay ...
... schools . Such schools might open in the morning at least a quarter of an hour before the time fixed for such secular instruction to commence , for the purpose of reading portions of the Holy Scriptures in the authorized or Douay ...
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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