A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 211
... politicians , they had a double loyalty . Nettie Palmer wrote letters of encouragement to Australian writers . In her spare time she read Goethe's Wilhelm Meister in German , and Marcel Proust's Du Côté de chez Swann in French . The ...
... politicians , they had a double loyalty . Nettie Palmer wrote letters of encouragement to Australian writers . In her spare time she read Goethe's Wilhelm Meister in German , and Marcel Proust's Du Côté de chez Swann in French . The ...
Page 334
... politicians to do something . A member of a delegation from the One Big Union of Unemployed said to the Minister for Labour and Industry in Brisbane : ' Put your " nuts " together and stop it'.30 No one knew how to do that . All sorts ...
... politicians to do something . A member of a delegation from the One Big Union of Unemployed said to the Minister for Labour and Industry in Brisbane : ' Put your " nuts " together and stop it'.30 No one knew how to do that . All sorts ...
Page 380
... politicians was , to say the least of it , ' under suspicion ' . Hard work and honesty of purpose were ' the essentials of the remedy for Aus- tralia's ills ' . 33 The following day , 7 May , the parliamentary members of the Nationalist ...
... politicians was , to say the least of it , ' under suspicion ' . Hard work and honesty of purpose were ' the essentials of the remedy for Aus- tralia's ills ' . 33 The following day , 7 May , the parliamentary members of the Nationalist ...
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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