A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization 1824-1851. IIIThe third volume of Manning Clark's distinguished history takes the story of Australia to the momentous discovery of gold and the separation of Victoria from New South Wales. Up to this point the story is one of destruction as well as construction: the destruction of the Aborigines and the construction of an essentially English bourgeois society and the taming of an alien and seemingly sterile land along the coastal country. |
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Page 81
Both the Act and the despatch accepted the point made in the second report of
the select committee on South Australia that the first principle of colonization was
to maintain a due proportion between the extent of land appropriated and the ...
Both the Act and the despatch accepted the point made in the second report of
the select committee on South Australia that the first principle of colonization was
to maintain a due proportion between the extent of land appropriated and the ...
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128-35; private letter of Gipps to Stanley, 22 August 1842 (Papers of the
Fourteenth Earl of Derby, Box 127/4); Port Phillip Herald, 18 November 1842;
Report of Preliminary Meeting on Coolie Labour, 20 August 1842 (ms. in m.l.).
128-35; private letter of Gipps to Stanley, 22 August 1842 (Papers of the
Fourteenth Earl of Derby, Box 127/4); Port Phillip Herald, 18 November 1842;
Report of Preliminary Meeting on Coolie Labour, 20 August 1842 (ms. in m.l.).
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On 21 June Lowe asked the Legislative Council to appoint a select committee to
inquire into and report upon the state of education in the colony and to devise the
means of placing the education of youth upon a basis suited to the wants and ...
On 21 June Lowe asked the Legislative Council to appoint a select committee to
inquire into and report upon the state of education in the colony and to devise the
means of placing the education of youth upon a basis suited to the wants and ...
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Contents
another province for britains gentry | 19 |
Charles Harpur and Jackey Jackey frontispiece | 32 |
a british province with a laudable purpose | 42 |
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