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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... colonies was by sea . When some of the empty space between the colonial centres was filled with settlers and country towns , when transport and communications brought the colonies closer together , it was natural and convenient for them ...
... colonies was by sea . When some of the empty space between the colonial centres was filled with settlers and country towns , when transport and communications brought the colonies closer together , it was natural and convenient for them ...
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... colonial days Victoria had pursued a protectionist policy from 1861 onwards , while New South Wales had remained more or less faithful to free trade . Thus , by the time of federation , manufacturing industry was much stronger in ...
... colonial days Victoria had pursued a protectionist policy from 1861 onwards , while New South Wales had remained more or less faithful to free trade . Thus , by the time of federation , manufacturing industry was much stronger in ...
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... colonial defence departments , enthusiastically carried on with voluntary recruiting . Like the undeclared war in Vietnam sixty - five years later , the conflict in South Africa was a ' dirty colonial war ' in which the imperial ...
... colonial defence departments , enthusiastically carried on with voluntary recruiting . Like the undeclared war in Vietnam sixty - five years later , the conflict in South Africa was a ' dirty colonial war ' in which the imperial ...
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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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