A History of Australia, Volume 6The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every person, traits forced to the fore in the hardship and trauma that occured during the establishment and develpment of white settlement in Australia. Clark sets out to use the tragedies and successes of national heroes such as explorerers and generals, and those of the average person such as soldiers at Gallipoli and farmer's wives, to create a memorable tableau. |
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Page 121
He told his supporters in Brisbane he was delighted with the attitude of the
Brisbane returned soldiers towards the Bolsheviks . He was just as enthusiastic
about the rough - house tactics of Hal Colebatch - a man who gave the troops the
stuff ...
He told his supporters in Brisbane he was delighted with the attitude of the
Brisbane returned soldiers towards the Bolsheviks . He was just as enthusiastic
about the rough - house tactics of Hal Colebatch - a man who gave the troops the
stuff ...
Page 187
45 Sixteen days after his death Australians were told the bugles of Old 44 S.M.H.
, 4 , 5 , 9 September 1922 ; story told by Vance Palmer to C. B. Christesen ;
Australian Communist , 8 September 1922 ; graves of J. R. Gribble and Henry
Kendall ...
45 Sixteen days after his death Australians were told the bugles of Old 44 S.M.H.
, 4 , 5 , 9 September 1922 ; story told by Vance Palmer to C. B. Christesen ;
Australian Communist , 8 September 1922 ; graves of J. R. Gribble and Henry
Kendall ...
Page 306
He told Nettie Palmer he was like a wounded sulky eagle desiring only to claw
the Almighty for his false idea of justice and mercy ' . For Ethel Florence
Robertson ( ' Henry Handel Richardson ' ) the ' long years of neglect and oblivion
' were ...
He told Nettie Palmer he was like a wounded sulky eagle desiring only to claw
the Almighty for his false idea of justice and mercy ' . For Ethel Florence
Robertson ( ' Henry Handel Richardson ' ) the ' long years of neglect and oblivion
' were ...
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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, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| ISBN | 0522843522, 9780522843521 |
| Length | 522 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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