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 138
Before they were married they wrote tender , loving letters to each other . ' If there
is a God ' , he wrote to her , probably in 1911 , ' I would never leave off thanking
him because he made me a man and you a woman and let our paths cross one ...
Before they were married they wrote tender , loving letters to each other . ' If there
is a God ' , he wrote to her , probably in 1911 , ' I would never leave off thanking
him because he made me a man and you a woman and let our paths cross one ...
Page 276
In his work , The Montforts he wrote of how richness of spirit could not exist in a
country little more than one hundred years old , of the power of British Philistinism
in Australia , of living in a country designed by nature for the Greek ideals of ...
In his work , The Montforts he wrote of how richness of spirit could not exist in a
country little more than one hundred years old , of the power of British Philistinism
in Australia , of living in a country designed by nature for the Greek ideals of ...
Page 499
Aborigines wrote their history , maintaining that their ancestors were not
immigrants , but were always here , and that white man's history was a cata .
logue of ' white lies ' . The New Left wrote their history . Accounts of the past
became part of ...
Aborigines wrote their history , maintaining that their ancestors were not
immigrants , but were always here , and that white man's history was a cata .
logue of ' white lies ' . The New Left wrote their history . Accounts of the past
became part of ...
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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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