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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... believed in the right of every adult to an equal voice and an effective voice in deciding the conditions under which he lived . They both believed in enlightenment . They both professed a strong faith in the capacity of Australians for ...
... believed in the right of every adult to an equal voice and an effective voice in deciding the conditions under which he lived . They both believed in enlightenment . They both professed a strong faith in the capacity of Australians for ...
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... believed federation was preferable to revolution , those who believed in loyalty to throne and empire , those enlightened bourgeois politicians who believed the interests of the bourgeois would be best served by federal union under the ...
... believed federation was preferable to revolution , those who believed in loyalty to throne and empire , those enlightened bourgeois politicians who believed the interests of the bourgeois would be best served by federal union under the ...
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... believed in free enterprise . He had always rejected any suggestion that human beings were capable of bringing about a millennium : he had always ridiculed people who professed either a desire or a capacity to regenerate the world . He ...
... believed in free enterprise . He had always rejected any suggestion that human beings were capable of bringing about a millennium : he had always ridiculed people who professed either a desire or a capacity to regenerate the world . He ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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