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 229
... idea of equating material well - being and creature comforts with happiness and moral rectitude . Thucydides , Sophocles , the Book of Ecclesiastes , the Book of Job and the Penitential Psalms had taught him not to expect much from ...
... idea of equating material well - being and creature comforts with happiness and moral rectitude . Thucydides , Sophocles , the Book of Ecclesiastes , the Book of Job and the Penitential Psalms had taught him not to expect much from ...
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... idea of the State as an umpire for the settlement of industrial disputes was not new . The objection was the same as to State intervention in other fields of economic activity , namely violation of the liberty of the individual . But ...
... idea of the State as an umpire for the settlement of industrial disputes was not new . The objection was the same as to State intervention in other fields of economic activity , namely violation of the liberty of the individual . But ...
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... idea of strategy for long . It was these men with their talents and weaknesses who had decided the fate of twenty thousand Australian soldiers , in training at Mena camp or boozing , brawling and rioting in the streets of Cairo . " The idea ...
... idea of strategy for long . It was these men with their talents and weaknesses who had decided the fate of twenty thousand Australian soldiers , in training at Mena camp or boozing , brawling and rioting in the streets of Cairo . " The idea ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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