A History of Australia: The people make laws, 1888-1915The 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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... University of Sydney as one of those men of promise who came to man's estate in the flowering years of bourgeois civilization in Australia . To the world at large he presented a formidable if somewhat icy exterior . His presence was ...
... University of Sydney as one of those men of promise who came to man's estate in the flowering years of bourgeois civilization in Australia . To the world at large he presented a formidable if somewhat icy exterior . His presence was ...
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... University of Melbourne that the Presbyterian Assembly had named the College in his honour . Some members of the University thought a squatter might better have applied his surplus wealth to such mundane purposes as the expansion of the ...
... University of Melbourne that the Presbyterian Assembly had named the College in his honour . Some members of the University thought a squatter might better have applied his surplus wealth to such mundane purposes as the expansion of the ...
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... University Conservatorium of Music , Professor Marshall - Hall , the man with the healthy laugh and a penchant for practical joking , was due to return to his chair in July . Marshall - Hall satisfied the thirst of music lovers for Bach ...
... University Conservatorium of Music , Professor Marshall - Hall , the man with the healthy laugh and a penchant for practical joking , was due to return to his chair in July . Marshall - Hall satisfied the thirst of music lovers for Bach ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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