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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... streets and over the tops of the houses . The stench of burning goats , sheep and cattle wafted into the town , as men and women and children trembled in the streets . In the Cape Otway ranges flames of fire fanned by a savage wind ...
... streets and over the tops of the houses . The stench of burning goats , sheep and cattle wafted into the town , as men and women and children trembled in the streets . In the Cape Otway ranges flames of fire fanned by a savage wind ...
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... Street , and the day before that a murder in Geelong . ' Shooting in the streets , bushranging upon the roads ... robbery , insult , outrage of every sort , shape and degree ' so astounded them that they wondered whether Victoria was ...
... Street , and the day before that a murder in Geelong . ' Shooting in the streets , bushranging upon the roads ... robbery , insult , outrage of every sort , shape and degree ' so astounded them that they wondered whether Victoria was ...
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... Street , seized him by the neck , threw him to the ground , kicked him and beat him with a waddy . The streets of the same city were infested with prostitutes to the great scandal of bourgeois morality . On the tramcars hooligans ...
... Street , seized him by the neck , threw him to the ground , kicked him and beat him with a waddy . The streets of the same city were infested with prostitutes to the great scandal of bourgeois morality . On the tramcars hooligans ...
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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