The Rush that Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining

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Melbourne University Press, 1969 - Business & Economics - 389 pages

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Introduction
1
Victorias Rushes
28
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition
46
Copyright

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Geoffrey Blainey is an Australian historian, born 1930 in Melbourne, Victoria. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. He taught at the University of Melbourne and held chairs in economic history and history. He taught at Harvard University as a visiting professor of Australian Studies. He has written over 36 and is the author of The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia for which he was a joint winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian history.

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