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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... W. C. Wentworth to D'Arcy Wentworth , 16 August 1816 ( Wentworth Papers , Letters from W. C. Wentworth , Ms. in M.L. ) ; see John Keats , ' Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds ' , lines 94-7 ; for the story behind the poem see Aileen Ward ...
... W. C. Wentworth to D'Arcy Wentworth , 16 August 1816 ( Wentworth Papers , Letters from W. C. Wentworth , Ms. in M.L. ) ; see John Keats , ' Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds ' , lines 94-7 ; for the story behind the poem see Aileen Ward ...
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... W. C. Wentworth , who some fifteen years earlier had put down on paper his rallying cry to all those who had ' Australasian hearts ' , to all those for whom ' Dear Australasia ' was their ' Mother Earth ' , had stopped going to ...
... W. C. Wentworth , who some fifteen years earlier had put down on paper his rallying cry to all those who had ' Australasian hearts ' , to all those for whom ' Dear Australasia ' was their ' Mother Earth ' , had stopped going to ...
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... W. C. Wentworth and others played for no less than twenty million acres in the south island of New Zealand in return for two hundred gold sovereigns , and an undertaking to pay the same sum each year to the Maori chiefs for their ...
... W. C. Wentworth and others played for no less than twenty million acres in the south island of New Zealand in return for two hundred gold sovereigns , and an undertaking to pay the same sum each year to the Maori chiefs for their ...
Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 73 |
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