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 85
Ex - Labor men helped conservatives to win the vital middle vote at an Australian
election . Hughes had one other asset . As an ex - Labor man he had the habit of
vibrating ' with sympathy for the downtrodden masses ' . Hughes could do this ...
Ex - Labor men helped conservatives to win the vital middle vote at an Australian
election . Hughes had one other asset . As an ex - Labor man he had the habit of
vibrating ' with sympathy for the downtrodden masses ' . Hughes could do this ...
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The conservatives have said : “ These are fateful times for the German people ' .
But the German conservatives shrank at the shame of signing the terms laid
down by the Allies for an armistice . There was chaos on the home front ,
impending ...
The conservatives have said : “ These are fateful times for the German people ' .
But the German conservatives shrank at the shame of signing the terms laid
down by the Allies for an armistice . There was chaos on the home front ,
impending ...
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would be an immediate release in Australia of millions of pounds which were
now sent overseas . Lang must be stopped . Lyons must play the man of destiny ,
the saviour of Australia . The conservatives renewed their call for a ' Government
of ...
would be an immediate release in Australia of millions of pounds which were
now sent overseas . Lang must be stopped . Lyons must play the man of destiny ,
the saviour of Australia . The conservatives renewed their call for a ' Government
of ...
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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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