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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... Kelly was a wild ass of a man , snarling , roaring and frothing like a ferocious beast when the tamer entered the cage . Mad Ireland had fashioned a man who consumed his vast gifts in an insensate war on property and on all the props of ...
... Kelly was a wild ass of a man , snarling , roaring and frothing like a ferocious beast when the tamer entered the cage . Mad Ireland had fashioned a man who consumed his vast gifts in an insensate war on property and on all the props of ...
Page 330
... Kelly . ' To the accompaniment of cheers and hurrahs ' for the good old times of Morgan and Ben Hall ' , Ned and his gang rode off to their hiding - place in the Warby Ranges . The Reverend Mr Gribble returned to his mission station at ...
... Kelly . ' To the accompaniment of cheers and hurrahs ' for the good old times of Morgan and Ben Hall ' , Ned and his gang rode off to their hiding - place in the Warby Ranges . The Reverend Mr Gribble returned to his mission station at ...
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... Kelly must suffer an ignominious death ; he must hang by the neck until dead.27 In the central criminal court in Melbourne on 28 October 1880 the trial of Edward Kelly for the murder of Constable Thomas Lonigan began before His Honour ...
... Kelly must suffer an ignominious death ; he must hang by the neck until dead.27 In the central criminal court in Melbourne on 28 October 1880 the trial of Edward Kelly for the murder of Constable Thomas Lonigan began before His Honour ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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