A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 117
... larrikins who sneered at him for going to the war . Being an expert in the ' stoush ' , he silenced them with a straight left to the chin , and a right below the belt to make sure they would not torment him for a while . He took a job ...
... larrikins who sneered at him for going to the war . Being an expert in the ' stoush ' , he silenced them with a straight left to the chin , and a right below the belt to make sure they would not torment him for a while . He took a job ...
Page 177
... larrikin , he took refuge in a world of make - believe , because he had found , like Dennis , there was no salvation in the muck . Ginger Meggs was no more an Australian boy from the suburbs than the Bloke was an Australian larrikin ...
... larrikin , he took refuge in a world of make - believe , because he had found , like Dennis , there was no salvation in the muck . Ginger Meggs was no more an Australian boy from the suburbs than the Bloke was an Australian larrikin ...
Page 209
... larrikin tradition . 25 Publicly the Communist Party leaders sang their aria about the imminent end of capitalist society . Privately some of their members were becoming disenchanted , because the party had not blossomed into a mass ...
... larrikin tradition . 25 Publicly the Communist Party leaders sang their aria about the imminent end of capitalist society . Privately some of their members were becoming disenchanted , because the party had not blossomed into a mass ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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