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So while the white man bragged of material progress , the aborigine sank lower and lower into the mire.12 At the same time the white man continued that never - ending debate about what sort of labour was most suitable to exploit the ...
So while the white man bragged of material progress , the aborigine sank lower and lower into the mire.12 At the same time the white man continued that never - ending debate about what sort of labour was most suitable to exploit the ...
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the only solution to their desperate need for cheap labour lay in separation from New South Wales , and the creation of a new colony or colonies . A meeting of squatters at Drayton on the Darling Downs on 23 July 1850 prepared a ...
the only solution to their desperate need for cheap labour lay in separation from New South Wales , and the creation of a new colony or colonies . A meeting of squatters at Drayton on the Darling Downs on 23 July 1850 prepared a ...
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The planters argued for coloured labour very much as the squatters had argued for convict labour in the period before the discovery of gold . They argued that Polynesian or some such description of cheap labour was essential to the ...
The planters argued for coloured labour very much as the squatters had argued for convict labour in the period before the discovery of gold . They argued that Polynesian or some such description of cheap labour was essential to the ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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