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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... society , that head - on collision between Capital and Labour which had begun in Europe during the bloody June days in 1848 and broken out again in the murderous Paris Commune of March 1871. The very foundations of society would be ...
... society , that head - on collision between Capital and Labour which had begun in Europe during the bloody June days in 1848 and broken out again in the murderous Paris Commune of March 1871. The very foundations of society would be ...
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... society . Western Australia was still a tiny society of Europeans and Aborigines , the former seeing no reason to shed the myth of British institutions and national progress , the latter too broken by the recent past to hold any ideas ...
... society . Western Australia was still a tiny society of Europeans and Aborigines , the former seeing no reason to shed the myth of British institutions and national progress , the latter too broken by the recent past to hold any ideas ...
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... society as Hell on earth : Part Two was to portray a future socialist society as Paradise . Lane only finished the first part . Like many human beings he found it easier to write about evil than about goodness . Besides , by then he was ...
... society as Hell on earth : Part Two was to portray a future socialist society as Paradise . Lane only finished the first part . Like many human beings he found it easier to write about evil than about goodness . Besides , by then he was ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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