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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Page 135
... squatters at Drayton on the Darling Downs on 23 July 1850 prepared a petition to the Queen in which the petitioners explained that as the use of coloured labour was repugnant to them and threatened that which they cherished most , their ...
... squatters at Drayton on the Darling Downs on 23 July 1850 prepared a petition to the Queen in which the petitioners explained that as the use of coloured labour was repugnant to them and threatened that which they cherished most , their ...
Page 140
... squatters that he could not justly be charged with repudiation of the rights of the squatters . He wanted to facilitate the permanent occupation of the country by freeholders with as little injury as possible to the great pastoral ...
... squatters that he could not justly be charged with repudiation of the rights of the squatters . He wanted to facilitate the permanent occupation of the country by freeholders with as little injury as possible to the great pastoral ...
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... squatters could do on a hundred . The squatters had had their chance ; now the people would have their chance . The ' un- washed ' were about to build their ugly huts within a mile of the big home- steads and end the squatters ' dreams ...
... squatters could do on a hundred . The squatters had had their chance ; now the people would have their chance . The ' un- washed ' were about to build their ugly huts within a mile of the big home- steads and end the squatters ' dreams ...
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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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