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 61
... told them of the behaviour of a Mr Mackay , the head of the police , who went out at night after a glass too much and annoyed and insulted diggers by poking bayonets into closed tents . He told them about Sergeant Worsley who had kept ...
... told them of the behaviour of a Mr Mackay , the head of the police , who went out at night after a glass too much and annoyed and insulted diggers by poking bayonets into closed tents . He told them about Sergeant Worsley who had kept ...
Page 110
... told his admirers he was ' still an Irish rebel to the backbone and to the spinal marrow ' . Modesty was not one of his virtues . Privately he told his friends in Melbourne that in colonial society he felt himself to be a whale among ...
... told his admirers he was ' still an Irish rebel to the backbone and to the spinal marrow ' . Modesty was not one of his virtues . Privately he told his friends in Melbourne that in colonial society he felt himself to be a whale among ...
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... told the electors in Collingwood in March of 1866 that the question was whether the country was to become an impressive development of democracy or to be cramped and confined beneath the sway of an oligarchy ! He urged them to go on and ...
... told the electors in Collingwood in March of 1866 that the question was whether the country was to become an impressive development of democracy or to be cramped and confined beneath the sway of an oligarchy ! He urged them to go on and ...
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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