A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851The 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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Page 145
So in accordance with those principles and in obedience to Her Majesty's
Government Gipps was pleased to direct that on every occasion of a violent
death occurring among the aborigines wherein any white man was concerned or
supposed ...
So in accordance with those principles and in obedience to Her Majesty's
Government Gipps was pleased to direct that on every occasion of a violent
death occurring among the aborigines wherein any white man was concerned or
supposed ...
Page 308
So Council threw out the bill by fourteen votes to ten—the end of yet another
attempt by Gipps and Plunkett to achieve equality before the law between white
men and aborigines.” At the same time as Robinson was struggling through the
bush ...
So Council threw out the bill by fourteen votes to ten—the end of yet another
attempt by Gipps and Plunkett to achieve equality before the law between white
men and aborigines.” At the same time as Robinson was struggling through the
bush ...
Page 342
A month later Elizabeth Gipps wrote to Thomson, “the Friend with whom you were
so intimately associated for so long a period is no more. His [so] sudden removal
was as unlooked for by me as it was bitter ... how wretched I am ...' She ended ...
A month later Elizabeth Gipps wrote to Thomson, “the Friend with whom you were
so intimately associated for so long a period is no more. His [so] sudden removal
was as unlooked for by me as it was bitter ... how wretched I am ...' She ended ...
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| Title | A History of Australia: The beginning of an Australian civilization, 1824-1851 Volume 3 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Authors | Charles Manning Hope Clark, Manning Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| ISBN | 052284054X, 9780522840544 |
| Length | 491 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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