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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... Catholic ! Catholic ! Go to hell ! Catholics taunted Protestants with a parody of a favourite hymn : And nightly pitch my moving tent a day's march nearer Rome . Protestants and Catholics pledged themselves to be faithful to a morality ...
... Catholic ! Catholic ! Go to hell ! Catholics taunted Protestants with a parody of a favourite hymn : And nightly pitch my moving tent a day's march nearer Rome . Protestants and Catholics pledged themselves to be faithful to a morality ...
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... Catholic Church had put on the armour of political righteousness with which to smite the Philistines of bourgeois Australia . His name was Bernard O'Dowd . Born in Beaufort , Victoria , on 11 April 1866 , he was educated at Catholic ...
... Catholic Church had put on the armour of political righteousness with which to smite the Philistines of bourgeois Australia . His name was Bernard O'Dowd . Born in Beaufort , Victoria , on 11 April 1866 , he was educated at Catholic ...
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... Catholics retorted that Protestants had muddied the waters of Catholic truth so that they might wallow in a materialist sty . The evil of freemasonry was again stalking the land . Tension over the future of Ireland inflamed the ...
... Catholics retorted that Protestants had muddied the waters of Catholic truth so that they might wallow in a materialist sty . The evil of freemasonry was again stalking the land . Tension over the future of Ireland inflamed the ...
Contents
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
Copyright | |
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