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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31 On 23 January 1856 Henry Samuel Chapman proposed in the Legislative
Council of Victoria that in all future elections to the Legislative Assembly and the
Legislative Council the elector should cross out on a ballot - paper the names of
the ...
31 On 23 January 1856 Henry Samuel Chapman proposed in the Legislative
Council of Victoria that in all future elections to the Legislative Assembly and the
Legislative Council the elector should cross out on a ballot - paper the names of
the ...
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Legislative Assembly on 27 August 1857 , and an act to extend the right of voting
which introduced manhood suffrage on ... of colonial bourgeois , were too timid to
take on the reform of the composition or the powers of the Legislative Council .
Legislative Assembly on 27 August 1857 , and an act to extend the right of voting
which introduced manhood suffrage on ... of colonial bourgeois , were too timid to
take on the reform of the composition or the powers of the Legislative Council .
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Some also argued that it was the duty of a conservative to use the Legislative
Council to stop these vulgarians destroying the foundations of society . ' If the
people , in its sovereign pleasure , wrote the Sydney Morning Herald on 24 April
1861 ...
Some also argued that it was the duty of a conservative to use the Legislative
Council to stop these vulgarians destroying the foundations of society . ' If the
people , in its sovereign pleasure , wrote the Sydney Morning Herald on 24 April
1861 ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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