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 143
... looked like a repetition of the ill - fated 1891 convention . It looked as though history were repeating itself ( a second time not as a farce after a fiasco but as an occasion for a yawn ) . Once again delegates were asked to say it ...
... looked like a repetition of the ill - fated 1891 convention . It looked as though history were repeating itself ( a second time not as a farce after a fiasco but as an occasion for a yawn ) . Once again delegates were asked to say it ...
Page 158
... looked with glistening eyes towards the bar . For all the eye could tell the ' top ' families were in no danger in Melbourne . But prophets were warning them that if they were to continue the giddy round of getting and spending , to ...
... looked with glistening eyes towards the bar . For all the eye could tell the ' top ' families were in no danger in Melbourne . But prophets were warning them that if they were to continue the giddy round of getting and spending , to ...
Page 304
... looked as though Mr Deakin had lost the battle for political principle . It looked as though he had thrown overboard the graduated land tax : and he was prepared to throw away the whole of the welfare programme which had made his party ...
... looked as though Mr Deakin had lost the battle for political principle . It looked as though he had thrown overboard the graduated land tax : and he was prepared to throw away the whole of the welfare programme which had made his party ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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