A History of Australia, Volume 6The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every person, traits forced to the fore in the hardship and trauma that occured during the establishment and develpment of white settlement in Australia. Clark sets out to use the tragedies and successes of national heroes such as explorerers and generals, and those of the average person such as soldiers at Gallipoli and farmer's wives, to create a memorable tableau. |
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Menzies, like Deakin, believed the Australian dream could be achieved without
any change in the ownership or distribu tion 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 distribu tion 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 Pozieres
blood-bath, Bob Menzies wrote an article for the Melbourne University Magazine.
The British and the Australians, he believed, were displaying 'valour for the right'.
While some Australian soldiers sobbed and cried like children in the Pozieres
blood-bath, Bob Menzies wrote an article for the Melbourne University Magazine.
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a man whose face was not the mirror either of his thoughts or his passions.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.
a man whose face was not the mirror either of his thoughts or his passions.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.
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Contents
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 1 |
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 6 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 6 of A History of Australia: The Old Dead Tree and the Young Green Tree 1916-1935 with an Epilogue, Charles Manning Hope Clark Volume 6 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0522843522, 9780522843521 |
| Length | 522 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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