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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... Brisbane on 8 January 1851 they agreed to put three requests to the British government : separation from New South Wales , the boundary line to be the Macleay River ; the provision of two thousand exiles , plus wives ; and a ...
... Brisbane on 8 January 1851 they agreed to put three requests to the British government : separation from New South Wales , the boundary line to be the Macleay River ; the provision of two thousand exiles , plus wives ; and a ...
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... Brisbane the aborigines were rarely heard singing sweet psalms to their Saviour , or joining in any of those activities which kept alive in the white man the hope that one day squalor and degradation would disappear to be replaced by ...
... Brisbane the aborigines were rarely heard singing sweet psalms to their Saviour , or joining in any of those activities which kept alive in the white man the hope that one day squalor and degradation would disappear to be replaced by ...
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... Brisbane he began to work with the Brisbane Courier and the Observer , where he made a reputation for his radical , populist tendencies , the fruits of his experience in North America . He wrote with all the extravagance of a man who ...
... Brisbane he began to work with the Brisbane Courier and the Observer , where he made a reputation for his radical , populist tendencies , the fruits of his experience in North America . He wrote with all the extravagance of a man who ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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