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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Menzies , like Deakin , believed the Australian dream could be achieved without
any change in the ownership or distribution of wealth . Curtin learned his politics
from John Ruskin's Unto This Last , Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward , the ...
Menzies , like Deakin , believed the Australian dream could be achieved without
any change in the ownership or distribution of wealth . Curtin learned his politics
from John Ruskin's Unto This Last , Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward , the ...
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The British and the Australians , he believed , were displaying ' valour for the right
. While some Australian soldiers sobbed and cried like children in the Pozières
blood - bath , Bob Menzies wrote an article for the Melbourne University ...
The British and the Australians , he believed , were displaying ' valour for the right
. While some Australian soldiers sobbed and cried like children in the Pozières
blood - bath , Bob Menzies wrote an article for the Melbourne University ...
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39 Hughes fondly believed that as long as Labor was divided he was safe . He
had grounds for his belief . The Russian revolution has divided the Labor
movement . In the early days of the revolution the Labor movement hailed the
revolution ...
39 Hughes fondly believed that as long as Labor was divided he was safe . He
had grounds for his belief . The Russian revolution has divided the Labor
movement . In the early days of the revolution the Labor movement hailed the
revolution ...
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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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