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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There was no poetry in his soul , no gift or taste for talking of being ' British to the
boot - straps . For him it was all a question of common sense . Australia must
have a naval defence scheme to resist invasion , or deter would be invaders .
There was no poetry in his soul , no gift or taste for talking of being ' British to the
boot - straps . For him it was all a question of common sense . Australia must
have a naval defence scheme to resist invasion , or deter would be invaders .
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In February 1924 he had asked Allen Leeper , the son of that fanatical upholder
of the Protestant ascendancy , Dr Alexander Leeper , the first Warden of Trinity
College , Melbourne , to advise him on such questions . By June , Leeper had a ...
In February 1924 he had asked Allen Leeper , the son of that fanatical upholder
of the Protestant ascendancy , Dr Alexander Leeper , the first Warden of Trinity
College , Melbourne , to advise him on such questions . By June , Leeper had a ...
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the duties of the position : the question was whether it was wise or right to change
, particularly at the present time , the relations now existing between the Empire
and the Commonwealth . The conservatives did not wish to encourage any ...
the duties of the position : the question was whether it was wise or right to change
, particularly at the present time , the relations now existing between the Empire
and the Commonwealth . The conservatives did not wish to encourage any ...
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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 |
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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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