A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838The 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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... colony , of his astronomical observations of that virgin sky , and his re- moving the censorship of the press . He gloried in having given the colony this inestimable privilege , and asked , with unwanted prescience , whether his ...
... colony , of his astronomical observations of that virgin sky , and his re- moving the censorship of the press . He gloried in having given the colony this inestimable privilege , and asked , with unwanted prescience , whether his ...
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... colony to fear that the assertions in the press would be believed by the more respectable part of the community to the serious prejudice of his administration and the cordiality and good feeling which had existed between the local ...
... colony to fear that the assertions in the press would be believed by the more respectable part of the community to the serious prejudice of his administration and the cordiality and good feeling which had existed between the local ...
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... colony . He never wavered from that stand . Besides , he went on , the free population had emigrated knowing it was a convict colony . They could complain neither with reason nor with justice against measures designed to punish convict ...
... colony . He never wavered from that stand . Besides , he went on , the free population had emigrated knowing it was a convict colony . They could complain neither with reason nor with justice against measures designed to punish convict ...
Contents
THE SETTING IN NEW SOUTH WALES | 17 |
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
THE NATIVE SON OFFENDS GROSSLY | 61 |
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