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Page 118
... force , by their venality , arrogance , brutality and incompetence , did much to earn the contempt in which they were held . In the diary of a Bendigo store - keeper we read : ... Robberies as daring and cruel as those of the highwayman ...
... force , by their venality , arrogance , brutality and incompetence , did much to earn the contempt in which they were held . In the diary of a Bendigo store - keeper we read : ... Robberies as daring and cruel as those of the highwayman ...
Page 119
... force personnel - particularly vicious and venal old convicts despised by their fellows - Gold Rush conditions added an upper stratum of : ... the worst class of colonists - young men who have been accus- tomed to no business habits at ...
... force personnel - particularly vicious and venal old convicts despised by their fellows - Gold Rush conditions added an upper stratum of : ... the worst class of colonists - young men who have been accus- tomed to no business habits at ...
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... forces of the time : Protection and Utopian idealism , industrial trade union- ism and chauvinistic nationalism ... force behind the Australian Labour Party , was the western bush worker ; not the craft - union of the factory . The ...
... forces of the time : Protection and Utopian idealism , industrial trade union- ism and chauvinistic nationalism ... force behind the Australian Labour Party , was the western bush worker ; not the craft - union of the factory . The ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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