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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... Captain Russell was quite a wag . He suggested that federal union was rather like a marriage contract . New Zealand did not think there would be a marriage of affection between New Zealand and the Australian colonies . If there were to ...
... Captain Russell was quite a wag . He suggested that federal union was rather like a marriage contract . New Zealand did not think there would be a marriage of affection between New Zealand and the Australian colonies . If there were to ...
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... captain of the ship Corinna , trading between New South Wales and Tasmania , dismissed a fireman named Mangan . Believing Mangan had been dismissed because he was an officer of their union , the Seamen's Union demanded that he be ...
... captain of the ship Corinna , trading between New South Wales and Tasmania , dismissed a fireman named Mangan . Believing Mangan had been dismissed because he was an officer of their union , the Seamen's Union demanded that he be ...
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... Captain Cook had observed as long ago as 1770 , the ' Natives of New Holland ... may appear to some to be the most wretched People upon Earth ; but in reality they are far more happier than we Europeans ' . The natives of New Holland ...
... Captain Cook had observed as long ago as 1770 , the ' Natives of New Holland ... may appear to some to be the most wretched People upon Earth ; but in reality they are far more happier than we Europeans ' . The natives of New Holland ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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