The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 3Late nineteenth-century Australia claimed one of the world's highest standards of living and was seen as one of the most successful examples of the transplantation of British culture. Yet beneath the surface prosperity, there lay a great deal of uncertainty and conflict, including clashes among churches, the crash of the 1890s, pressure for federation, and the challenging of traditional views of education, women's roles, and the family. This volume takes a skeptical look at many of the common perceptions of Australia in the Victorian era, concentrating on human values rather than on the rhetoric of national achievement. |
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... parliament . A supporter , not surprisingly , of payment for members of parliament , he spent the 1860s as a public servant , returning to parliament in 1870. He also advocated a simple land title system based on the traditional method ...
... parliament . A supporter , not surprisingly , of payment for members of parliament , he spent the 1860s as a public servant , returning to parliament in 1870. He also advocated a simple land title system based on the traditional method ...
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... parliament to parliament . Only a handful of men built up experience and expertise in the art of government and administration . They became the more influential with each group of neophytes . Often the experts were lawyers whose ...
... parliament to parliament . Only a handful of men built up experience and expertise in the art of government and administration . They became the more influential with each group of neophytes . Often the experts were lawyers whose ...
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... Parliament of New South Wales 1856–1965 , Gov- ernment Printer , Sydney , 1971 , p . 15 . 5 P. Weller , ' Tasmania ' , in Loveday , Martin and Parker ( eds ) , Emerg- ence of the Australian Party System , p . 355 . 6 P. Loveday and ...
... Parliament of New South Wales 1856–1965 , Gov- ernment Printer , Sydney , 1971 , p . 15 . 5 P. Weller , ' Tasmania ' , in Loveday , Martin and Parker ( eds ) , Emerg- ence of the Australian Party System , p . 355 . 6 P. Loveday and ...
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