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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... Australian colonies preferred to remain colonial and provincial rather than sail over those uncharted waters of in- dependence , partly because of the influence of the immigrants and partly because independence was tainted with ...
... Australian colonies preferred to remain colonial and provincial rather than sail over those uncharted waters of in- dependence , partly because of the influence of the immigrants and partly because independence was tainted with ...
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... Australian Colonies Government Act of 5 August 1850 empowered Her Majesty to erect the district northward of 30 ° south latitude into a separate colony or colonies upon the petition of the inhabitant house- holders of any such of those ...
... Australian Colonies Government Act of 5 August 1850 empowered Her Majesty to erect the district northward of 30 ° south latitude into a separate colony or colonies upon the petition of the inhabitant house- holders of any such of those ...
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... Australian colonies was to succeed where New South Wales and South Australia had failed in remov- ing the mantle of ... Australian youth in the cause of science and Australian progress . Victoria was about to vindicate her character of ...
... Australian colonies was to succeed where New South Wales and South Australia had failed in remov- ing the mantle of ... Australian youth in the cause of science and Australian progress . Victoria was about to vindicate her character of ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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