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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Page 182
Soon after government opened up the northern areas to selection in 1870 ,
Joseph March took up 564 acres in the Broughton area some thirty miles from
Clare . March , a one - time farm labourer in Norfolk , England , on 5s a week ,
had ...
Soon after government opened up the northern areas to selection in 1870 ,
Joseph March took up 564 acres in the Broughton area some thirty miles from
Clare . March , a one - time farm labourer in Norfolk , England , on 5s a week ,
had ...
Page 356
The bourgeois politicians in Brisbane , prodded by the working classes , passed
a series of acts to regulate and control the introduction and treatment of
Polynesian labourers beginning with the act of 4 March 1868 , the provisions of
which ...
The bourgeois politicians in Brisbane , prodded by the working classes , passed
a series of acts to regulate and control the introduction and treatment of
Polynesian labourers beginning with the act of 4 March 1868 , the provisions of
which ...
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At Bulli , on 23 March 1887 in the Illawarra ( Allowrie ) country which Lieutenant
Cook had seen at the end of April 1770 , when he ' pull ' d in for the land but went
out to sea again because nowhere could he effect a landing ' by reason of the ...
At Bulli , on 23 March 1887 in the Illawarra ( Allowrie ) country which Lieutenant
Cook had seen at the end of April 1770 , when he ' pull ' d in for the land but went
out to sea again because nowhere could he effect a landing ' by reason of the ...
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