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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Charles Manning Hope Clark. from God's ways like lost sheep , Judge Harding sentenced the men to three years imprisonment . 53 While the capitalist press , the politicians , the judges and the parsons were painting the union agitator as ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. from God's ways like lost sheep , Judge Harding sentenced the men to three years imprisonment . 53 While the capitalist press , the politicians , the judges and the parsons were painting the union agitator as ...
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... judge on his depravity . When a bank director or a director of a land company swindled a trusting public of thousands of pounds , often reducing thousands of hapless people to ruin , the accused brazened out his rascality by calling on ...
... judge on his depravity . When a bank director or a director of a land company swindled a trusting public of thousands of pounds , often reducing thousands of hapless people to ruin , the accused brazened out his rascality by calling on ...
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... judges : they were guardians of the established order . Hughes played with the idea of appointing to the High Court men who agreed with Labor's view on the duty of the State to control trusts and combines.66 The death of one judge ...
... judges : they were guardians of the established order . Hughes played with the idea of appointing to the High Court men who agreed with Labor's view on the duty of the State to control trusts and combines.66 The death of one judge ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
Copyright | |
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