A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 138
... Europe was doomed : Europe was weighed down by its past . There ' dreams of dead men underground / Trouble the heavy air ' . In Australia life ' has scarce begun ' . In Australia life ' with a laugh in its mouth / Plays butterfly in the ...
... Europe was doomed : Europe was weighed down by its past . There ' dreams of dead men underground / Trouble the heavy air ' . In Australia life ' has scarce begun ' . In Australia life ' with a laugh in its mouth / Plays butterfly in the ...
Page 474
... European language ' in Section 3a of the Immi- gration Act 1901-1930 meant ' a standard form of speech recognised as the received and ordinary means of communication among the inhabitants of an European community for all purposes of the ...
... European language ' in Section 3a of the Immi- gration Act 1901-1930 meant ' a standard form of speech recognised as the received and ordinary means of communication among the inhabitants of an European community for all purposes of the ...
Page 499
... Europeans in their own country , or live abroad . Australians no longer apologized for the way they talked , the way ... Europe as ' the land of holy wonders ' , but rather as a museum of past glories , a ' precious graveyard ' of the ...
... Europeans in their own country , or live abroad . Australians no longer apologized for the way they talked , the way ... Europe as ' the land of holy wonders ' , but rather as a museum of past glories , a ' precious graveyard ' of the ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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