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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... January 1852 that a government assayer should be appointed to melt , assay and stamp gold , and that the gold thus stamped should be received by weight in payment for land at government land sales and used as payment for taxes . In this ...
... January 1852 that a government assayer should be appointed to melt , assay and stamp gold , and that the gold thus stamped should be received by weight in payment for land at government land sales and used as payment for taxes . In this ...
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... January Terence Aubrey Murray presented a petition , praying the Assembly to take the land question into its immediate consideration . Other members also prayed for the immediate settlement of the land question by throwing the Crown ...
... January Terence Aubrey Murray presented a petition , praying the Assembly to take the land question into its immediate consideration . Other members also prayed for the immediate settlement of the land question by throwing the Crown ...
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... January 1863. On the last day they were finally hidden from the public gaze in a sarcophagus modelled on the ... January 1863 ; Seventh and Final Report of the Explo- ration Committee , 1863 ; Argus , 22 January 1863 . 40 Argus , 22 ...
... January 1863. On the last day they were finally hidden from the public gaze in a sarcophagus modelled on the ... January 1863 ; Seventh and Final Report of the Explo- ration Committee , 1863 ; Argus , 22 January 1863 . 40 Argus , 22 ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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