A History of Australia, Volume 6"All through this volume runs a sense of Australian uncertainty over the period 1916-1935: were Australians a people with their own country, their own responsibilities, their own history to make? Or were they essentially Britons, relocated merely by some chance in a far corner of the globe? Was it their destiny to look forward bravely to an unknown future, or to look backwards on a fading imperial past? Henry Lawson put to them the choice they had - between "the Old Dead Tree" and "the Young Tree Green"." |
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Page 31
On 23 August ' Birdie ' cabled the Australian Defence Department for
reinforcements . On 24 August the Secretary of State for the Colonies , on advice
from the Army Council , cabled for reinforcements owing to heavy casualties
suffered by the ...
On 23 August ' Birdie ' cabled the Australian Defence Department for
reinforcements . On 24 August the Secretary of State for the Colonies , on advice
from the Army Council , cabled for reinforcements owing to heavy casualties
suffered by the ...
Page 95
On 7 August , at Villers Bretonneux where the Australians had made their heroic
stand the preceding April , he exhorted the troops under his command to'inflict
blows upon the enemy which will make him stagger , and will bring the end ...
On 7 August , at Villers Bretonneux where the Australians had made their heroic
stand the preceding April , he exhorted the troops under his command to'inflict
blows upon the enemy which will make him stagger , and will bring the end ...
Page 312
On 15 August in the House of Representatives Ted Theodore led the attack on
the Government . John Brown , he said , the millionaire political financier of the
Government , had some mysterious influence over Bruce , an influence which ...
On 15 August in the House of Representatives Ted Theodore led the attack on
the Government . John Brown , he said , the millionaire political financier of the
Government , had some mysterious influence over Bruce , an influence which ...
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Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
Copyright | |
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