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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... mind of the young Henry Lawson . He had come down to the great city of Sydney in 1883 an innocent boy , after sixteen years in the Australian bush . In Sydney , under the influence of Tommy Walker and what he called a ' host of Yankee ...
... mind of the young Henry Lawson . He had come down to the great city of Sydney in 1883 an innocent boy , after sixteen years in the Australian bush . In Sydney , under the influence of Tommy Walker and what he called a ' host of Yankee ...
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... mind were pushing hard in Victoria , strengthened by the words of the Aus- tralian Natives Association . That magnificent advocate of the federal solution , Sir Henry Parkes , was making a gesture in keeping with that grandeur of vision ...
... mind were pushing hard in Victoria , strengthened by the words of the Aus- tralian Natives Association . That magnificent advocate of the federal solution , Sir Henry Parkes , was making a gesture in keeping with that grandeur of vision ...
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... mind quite freely to them . He was not going to listen to insulting speeches and language that was tantamount to sedition . Neither the unemployed nor the working classes were going to browbeat the Government of New South Wales . His ...
... mind quite freely to them . He was not going to listen to insulting speeches and language that was tantamount to sedition . Neither the unemployed nor the working classes were going to browbeat the Government of New South Wales . His ...
Contents
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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