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 148
Like Billy Hughes , Jack Lang learned in childhood all about the jungle of life . He
was born in Sydney on 21 December 1876. His mother was a Catholic , his father
a pre - marriage convert . Lang supplemented the family income by selling ...
Like Billy Hughes , Jack Lang learned in childhood all about the jungle of life . He
was born in Sydney on 21 December 1876. His mother was a Catholic , his father
a pre - marriage convert . Lang supplemented the family income by selling ...
Page 397
The law , with the help of capital , could handle Lang . Lang has said he was a
man of principle : he would never change his attitude to repudiation . The answer
was simple : the Commonwealth Parliament would make repudiation by a State a
...
The law , with the help of capital , could handle Lang . Lang has said he was a
man of principle : he would never change his attitude to repudiation . The answer
was simple : the Commonwealth Parliament would make repudiation by a State a
...
Page 407
More reliable rumour had it that the wild man of Australian politics was plotting
the assassination of Lang . Australia had a long tradition of violence . There had
been the violence against the land , violence against its original inhabitants , and
...
More reliable rumour had it that the wild man of Australian politics was plotting
the assassination of Lang . Australia had a long tradition of violence . There had
been the violence against the land , violence against its original inhabitants , and
...
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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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| 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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