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 98
In October while Hughes was singing with such gusto the aria ' What we have ,
we hold ' , Patrick McMahon Glynn , the Minister for Home and Territories ,
introduced into the House of Representatives an Electoral Bill which provided ,
amongst ...
In October while Hughes was singing with such gusto the aria ' What we have ,
we hold ' , Patrick McMahon Glynn , the Minister for Home and Territories ,
introduced into the House of Representatives an Electoral Bill which provided ,
amongst ...
Page 126
On 10 September 1919 he spoke again of the peace treaty to members of the
House of Representatives . Australia , he said , had now ' entered into a family of
nations on a footing of equality ' . Australia has been born in a blood sacrifice ...
On 10 September 1919 he spoke again of the peace treaty to members of the
House of Representatives . Australia , he said , had now ' entered into a family of
nations on a footing of equality ' . Australia has been born in a blood sacrifice ...
Page 134
In the House of Representatives the Nationalists won thirty - seven seats , the
Country groups won eleven ( three for candidates of the Farmers ' and Settlers '
Associations , and eight for the Victorian Farmers ' Union ) . Labor won twenty -
six ...
In the House of Representatives the Nationalists won thirty - seven seats , the
Country groups won eleven ( three for candidates of the Farmers ' and Settlers '
Associations , and eight for the Victorian Farmers ' Union ) . Labor won twenty -
six ...
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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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