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 207
... living would not be dragged down to the level of those unfortunate salesmen of ' embroidered petticoats ' or the savages in the Queensland sugar fields . White Australia ensured the standard of living befitting the superiority of the ...
... living would not be dragged down to the level of those unfortunate salesmen of ' embroidered petticoats ' or the savages in the Queensland sugar fields . White Australia ensured the standard of living befitting the superiority of the ...
Page 245
... living wage at a white man's standard of living , insisting , in his words , that the ' working creature , whether man , woman or child is entitled to be considered , not as a cog - wheel in a machine , but as a living human being ...
... living wage at a white man's standard of living , insisting , in his words , that the ' working creature , whether man , woman or child is entitled to be considered , not as a cog - wheel in a machine , but as a living human being ...
Page 287
... living in the existence mapped out for Australians by the ' gloomy apostles of purityranny ' , Mr Deakin set an example to his fellow - Australians : he worked in his office on Melbourne Cup Day . Never one to smile in public ...
... living in the existence mapped out for Australians by the ' gloomy apostles of purityranny ' , Mr Deakin set an example to his fellow - Australians : he worked in his office on Melbourne Cup Day . Never one to smile in public ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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