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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... Clarke , preached the second in a series of sermons on the biblical account of creation . The Archbishop accepted evolution as a manifest working of divine forward planning . He also had a word to say about the early days of humanity as ...
... Clarke , preached the second in a series of sermons on the biblical account of creation . The Archbishop accepted evolution as a manifest working of divine forward planning . He also had a word to say about the early days of humanity as ...
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... Clarke told them that the British Empire still had great deeds to perform for the human race . To preserve that Empire Australians must pay with the deaths of the bravest and the best . The deeds of members of that Empire were best ...
... Clarke told them that the British Empire still had great deeds to perform for the human race . To preserve that Empire Australians must pay with the deaths of the bravest and the best . The deeds of members of that Empire were best ...
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... Clarke , Charles E. , 91 Clarke , Archbp Henry Lowther , 322-3,369 , 380 , 418 Clarke , Marcus , 20 Clemens , Samuel Langhorn , 331-2 clergy , 298 , 359 ; attitude to women , 192 , 233 ; doctrinaire view , 63 , 192 , 347 , 369 ; land ...
... Clarke , Charles E. , 91 Clarke , Archbp Henry Lowther , 322-3,369 , 380 , 418 Clarke , Marcus , 20 Clemens , Samuel Langhorn , 331-2 clergy , 298 , 359 ; attitude to women , 192 , 233 ; doctrinaire view , 63 , 192 , 347 , 369 ; land ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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