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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In July 1920 Henry Lawson was having a spell in the Mental Hospital in
Darlinghurst . He had his own problem : how to raise the wind to pay for ale now
and in the hereafter — if there's any hereafter ' . He wondered whether that '
Grand and ...
In July 1920 Henry Lawson was having a spell in the Mental Hospital in
Darlinghurst . He had his own problem : how to raise the wind to pay for ale now
and in the hereafter — if there's any hereafter ' . He wondered whether that '
Grand and ...
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He was buried in the same cemetery as J. R. Gribble , ' The Blackfellow's Friend '
, and Henry Kendall , ' Poet of Australia ' . 44 The literary world was as divided in
death as it had been in life about Lawson . Christopher Brennan and Norman ...
He was buried in the same cemetery as J. R. Gribble , ' The Blackfellow's Friend '
, and Henry Kendall , ' Poet of Australia ' . 44 The literary world was as divided in
death as it had been in life about Lawson . Christopher Brennan and Norman ...
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Fritz , 339 Hauptmann , Henry , 384 Hedda Gabler ( H. Ibsen ) , 402 Heffron
family , 136 Heinze , Prof. Bernard , 339 Henkel , Ted , 282 Henley , Lt - Col Sir
Thomas , 154 Henry , Prince , see Gloucester , Duke of Henry , Alice , 490 Henry
VI ...
Fritz , 339 Hauptmann , Henry , 384 Hedda Gabler ( H. Ibsen ) , 402 Heffron
family , 136 Heinze , Prof. Bernard , 339 Henkel , Ted , 282 Henley , Lt - Col Sir
Thomas , 154 Henry , Prince , see Gloucester , Duke of Henry , Alice , 490 Henry
VI ...
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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 |
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| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 6 A History of Australia, Manning Clark |
| Authors | Charles Manning Hope Clark, Manning Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0522843522, 9780522843521 |
| Length | 522 pages |
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