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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... become a hireling for wages . He might lose his independence , his cherished freedom . He was threatened with the fate of becoming a ' destitute swagman ' , one of the unemployed in the inhospitable Australian bush where nature held out ...
... become a hireling for wages . He might lose his independence , his cherished freedom . He was threatened with the fate of becoming a ' destitute swagman ' , one of the unemployed in the inhospitable Australian bush where nature held out ...
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... become ' fair with love's own grace ' . A letter writer in the same paper wrote of the coming ' complete development of our whole manhood and womanhood ' , which will lead to the accomplishment of this noble ideal - human perfection ...
... become ' fair with love's own grace ' . A letter writer in the same paper wrote of the coming ' complete development of our whole manhood and womanhood ' , which will lead to the accomplishment of this noble ideal - human perfection ...
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... become the model bourgeois politician . For him Labor held out the promise of the whole world becoming safe for bourgeois virtues and his own brand of righteousness . Like Hughes , a nod of approval or recognition from those born in ...
... become the model bourgeois politician . For him Labor held out the promise of the whole world becoming safe for bourgeois virtues and his own brand of righteousness . Like Hughes , a nod of approval or recognition from those born in ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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