Australia Since the Camera, Volumes 1-3Cheshire, 1972 - History |
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... land ? Land reform became a bitter issue towards the end of the 1850s when alluvial gold was becoming scarce , and thousands of jobless diggers looked for farms . ' Homesteads for the people and manhood suffrage ' was a popular slogan ...
... land ? Land reform became a bitter issue towards the end of the 1850s when alluvial gold was becoming scarce , and thousands of jobless diggers looked for farms . ' Homesteads for the people and manhood suffrage ' was a popular slogan ...
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... land , might be found there . The population of about 400,000 was perched on the southern and eastern edge of a continent that had been charted from the sea , but little explored by land . The few men who had ventured into the interior ...
... land , might be found there . The population of about 400,000 was perched on the southern and eastern edge of a continent that had been charted from the sea , but little explored by land . The few men who had ventured into the interior ...
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... land mania of the 1880s took two main forms ' , says the brilliant historian of the period , Michael Cannon , in The Land Boomers . The first was based on a plethora of building societies , whose optimistic officials believed that every ...
... land mania of the 1880s took two main forms ' , says the brilliant historian of the period , Michael Cannon , in The Land Boomers . The first was based on a plethora of building societies , whose optimistic officials believed that every ...
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