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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Page 310
... Labor Party held out the promise of a less brutish life for the common man . Labor would create a society in which fewer were ' excessively rich ' and fewer ' degradingly poor'.1 On how this was to be brought about , Labor still spoke ...
... Labor Party held out the promise of a less brutish life for the common man . Labor would create a society in which fewer were ' excessively rich ' and fewer ' degradingly poor'.1 On how this was to be brought about , Labor still spoke ...
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... Labor Party did not even call itself a socialist party . The Labor Party was a ' liberal bourgeois party ' , the so - called Liberals in Australia really being conservative . In Australia the workers were mainly emigrants from Britain ...
... Labor Party did not even call itself a socialist party . The Labor Party was a ' liberal bourgeois party ' , the so - called Liberals in Australia really being conservative . In Australia the workers were mainly emigrants from Britain ...
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... Party was prepared to collaborate with the members of the Australian Labor party . By 1909 some of its members had abandoned hope of the Australian Labor Party ever becoming a socialist party . In the eyes of Tom Mann , a theoretician ...
... Party was prepared to collaborate with the members of the Australian Labor party . By 1909 some of its members had abandoned hope of the Australian Labor Party ever becoming a socialist party . In the eyes of Tom Mann , a theoretician ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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