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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... union of the Australian colonies , testified profusely to their loyalty to the Queen and the Empire , and to their intentions , as Thomas Playford of South Australia put it , to continue to belong to that great Anglo - Saxon people ...
... union of the Australian colonies , testified profusely to their loyalty to the Queen and the Empire , and to their intentions , as Thomas Playford of South Australia put it , to continue to belong to that great Anglo - Saxon people ...
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... union and employers . The time seemed propitious for such a move . A series of droughts in the 1880s had turned the ... Union over the principle of freedom of contract . When the Shearers ' Union asked the pastoralists in May 1890 to ...
... union and employers . The time seemed propitious for such a move . A series of droughts in the 1880s had turned the ... Union over the principle of freedom of contract . When the Shearers ' Union asked the pastoralists in May 1890 to ...
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... Union on 26 July demanded that the ship - owners accept forthwith the eight - hour principle , despite their plea in ... union , the Seamen's Union demanded that he be reinstated . On 15 August the marine officers gave the owners twenty ...
... Union on 26 July demanded that the ship - owners accept forthwith the eight - hour principle , despite their plea in ... union , the Seamen's Union demanded that he be reinstated . On 15 August the marine officers gave the owners twenty ...
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A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Alfred Deakin and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 112 |
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