A History of Australia, Volume 4This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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Page 192
... Australian mistletoe , a pretty parasite , which she twined round the pictures on the parlour wall . All her life in the Queensland bush she remained the great absentee at heart . Every day she waited anxiously for the arrival of the ...
... Australian mistletoe , a pretty parasite , which she twined round the pictures on the parlour wall . All her life in the Queensland bush she remained the great absentee at heart . Every day she waited anxiously for the arrival of the ...
Page 328
... bush with the intention of scattering pieces of me and my brother all over the bush and yet they know and acknowledge I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother ...
... bush with the intention of scattering pieces of me and my brother all over the bush and yet they know and acknowledge I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother ...
Page 346
... bush with the tradition of whisky as the dew of Heaven , and the thighs of a woman as something which passed all understanding . Side by side with ' lovely Jessie ' was that other hope that there was someone , somewhere who cared about ...
... bush with the tradition of whisky as the dew of Heaven , and the thighs of a woman as something which passed all understanding . Side by side with ' lovely Jessie ' was that other hope that there was someone , somewhere who cared about ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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