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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... Town the fifty - five members of a people which had probably numbered five thousand at the beginning of white civilization , lived in a miserable collection of huts and outbuildings . They were profoundly dirty , they swarmed with fleas ...
... Town the fifty - five members of a people which had probably numbered five thousand at the beginning of white civilization , lived in a miserable collection of huts and outbuildings . They were profoundly dirty , they swarmed with fleas ...
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... Town Courier railed against ' the deplorable incubus of senility and drivelling ' in London and urged the English to ' shovel out of town the traitors , fools , and triflers who beset the ark of the nation ' . Seven days later on 5 ...
... Town Courier railed against ' the deplorable incubus of senility and drivelling ' in London and urged the English to ' shovel out of town the traitors , fools , and triflers who beset the ark of the nation ' . Seven days later on 5 ...
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... town some twenty miles on the New South Wales side of the Murray River , captured the Post and Telegraph Office , cut the wires con- necting the town with the outside world , captured three local police , rounded up the men of the town ...
... town some twenty miles on the New South Wales side of the Murray River , captured the Post and Telegraph Office , cut the wires con- necting the town with the outside world , captured three local police , rounded up the men of the town ...
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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