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 295
... military training was a device of the ' gorge and guzzle ' class for the suppression of the working class . King O'Malley denounced militarism because it enabled ' gilt - spurred roosters ' to blow a bugle and snatch sons of the working ...
... military training was a device of the ' gorge and guzzle ' class for the suppression of the working class . King O'Malley denounced militarism because it enabled ' gilt - spurred roosters ' to blow a bugle and snatch sons of the working ...
Page 325
... military training ini- tiated by Mr Deakin's Defence Act of 13 December 1909. Under that Act males between the ages of twelve and twenty were compelled to undergo military training each year for a prescribed number of hours . Exemptions ...
... military training ini- tiated by Mr Deakin's Defence Act of 13 December 1909. Under that Act males between the ages of twelve and twenty were compelled to undergo military training each year for a prescribed number of hours . Exemptions ...
Page 418
... military band playing the ' Dead March'.45 Bridges was buried near the Royal Military College at Canberra on a hill overlooking those lovely Limestone Plains where the white people had first planted a society of English country gentry ...
... military band playing the ' Dead March'.45 Bridges was buried near the Royal Military College at Canberra on a hill overlooking those lovely Limestone Plains where the white people had first planted a society of English country gentry ...
Contents
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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