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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... Berry said not a word.43 All his life Berry was an enigma , a man with a public face who was careful not to let anyone see what went on at those moments in life when he wore his private face . He had always been a solitary and a shy man ...
... Berry said not a word.43 All his life Berry was an enigma , a man with a public face who was careful not to let anyone see what went on at those moments in life when he wore his private face . He had always been a solitary and a shy man ...
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... Berry ' tacked ' provision for such a scheme onto the estimates for the coming year . Once again , as in the previous collisions between the Assembly and the Council , the latter refused to consider the estimates until such time as the ...
... Berry ' tacked ' provision for such a scheme onto the estimates for the coming year . Once again , as in the previous collisions between the Assembly and the Council , the latter refused to consider the estimates until such time as the ...
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... Berry put before parliament a proposal for constitutional reform designed to end the power of the Council to touch money bills , together with some provisions for the resolution of deadlocks between the two houses . When the Council ...
... Berry put before parliament a proposal for constitutional reform designed to end the power of the Council to touch money bills , together with some provisions for the resolution of deadlocks between the two houses . When the Council ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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