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 154
Rationalism was a faith for mockers and the deprived , not a faith by which the
overwhelming majority of humanity could live . In July 1920 , when the King and
Empire men were shouting themselves hoarse in the Sydney Town Hall , Ted
Brady ...
Rationalism was a faith for mockers and the deprived , not a faith by which the
overwhelming majority of humanity could live . In July 1920 , when the King and
Empire men were shouting themselves hoarse in the Sydney Town Hall , Ted
Brady ...
Page 200
Faith healers , with their ' insipid inanities ' were making their appeal to the ' semi
- imbecile victims ' of a decadent civilization ' . James Hickson arrived on a
healing mission in the churches of Sydney and Melbourne and other places in
March ...
Faith healers , with their ' insipid inanities ' were making their appeal to the ' semi
- imbecile victims ' of a decadent civilization ' . James Hickson arrived on a
healing mission in the churches of Sydney and Melbourne and other places in
March ...
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He agreed with them that ' amid the economic and political convulsions which
have shaken the world , the British Empire stands firm and that its widely
scattered peoples remain one in their belief in its ideals and their faith in its
destiny ' .
He agreed with them that ' amid the economic and political convulsions which
have shaken the world , the British Empire stands firm and that its widely
scattered peoples remain one in their belief in its ideals and their faith in its
destiny ' .
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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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