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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... Representatives , expressed by the support of the majority.27 He wanted to see in the constitution a conservative upper chamber , and a House of Representatives elected upon a thoroughly popular basis . For Parkes was one of the finest ...
... Representatives , expressed by the support of the majority.27 He wanted to see in the constitution a conservative upper chamber , and a House of Representatives elected upon a thoroughly popular basis . For Parkes was one of the finest ...
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... Representatives . A strong Senate , a Senate possessing equal powers with the House of Representatives , he argued , was the essential condition of accepting federation . The minority could check and restrain the majority : the less ...
... Representatives . A strong Senate , a Senate possessing equal powers with the House of Representatives , he argued , was the essential condition of accepting federation . The minority could check and restrain the majority : the less ...
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... Representatives , the people's house , as the source of all just power in Australia , and the Senate as a states ' house . Labor was talking of the Senate as a house enjoying equal powers with the House of Representatives except on ...
... Representatives , the people's house , as the source of all just power in Australia , and the Senate as a states ' house . Labor was talking of the Senate as a house enjoying equal powers with the House of Representatives except on ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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