The History of Australia: The Twentieth CenturyHow governments and social policy from 1900 to 1975 led to the development of a national Australian consciousness. |
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... believed that ' coloured people ' were innately , genetically inferior to whites . Nevertheless , Federal Parliament was , almost from the beginning , considerably more democratic than those of the States . - - As we have seen , members ...
... believed that ' coloured people ' were innately , genetically inferior to whites . Nevertheless , Federal Parliament was , almost from the beginning , considerably more democratic than those of the States . - - As we have seen , members ...
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... believed in much of his own rhetoric . Perhaps this quality of sincerity was the secret of his power over so many . He also believed , no doubt , in the importance of his own possession of power and in the unimportance of the methods by ...
... believed in much of his own rhetoric . Perhaps this quality of sincerity was the secret of his power over so many . He also believed , no doubt , in the importance of his own possession of power and in the unimportance of the methods by ...
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... believed , it was utterly immoral to wage war upon a country thousands of kilometres away simply because that country , or its supposed friends , might on some future occasion attack Australia . Finally they believed that the recent ...
... believed , it was utterly immoral to wage war upon a country thousands of kilometres away simply because that country , or its supposed friends , might on some future occasion attack Australia . Finally they believed that the recent ...
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A NATION FOR A CONTINENT c 19001903 | 12 |
Legislation and White Australia | 29 |
New Protection and the Basic Wage | 46 |
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