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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... Burke , the party of four set out in the direction of the Gulf of Carpentaria . Mr Burke was making for the gulf on ... Robert O'Hara Burke . 16 R. O. Burke to J. Macadam , 19 October , 13 December 1860 , Letters of Robert O'Hara Burke ...
... Burke , the party of four set out in the direction of the Gulf of Carpentaria . Mr Burke was making for the gulf on ... Robert O'Hara Burke . 16 R. O. Burke to J. Macadam , 19 October , 13 December 1860 , Letters of Robert O'Hara Burke ...
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... Burke and Wills belonged the homage due to the pre- eminently brave . The following day the Argus prophesied that the name of Robert O'Hara Burke would henceforth be a precious possession to the people of Victoria . Indeed so ...
... Burke and Wills belonged the homage due to the pre- eminently brave . The following day the Argus prophesied that the name of Robert O'Hara Burke would henceforth be a precious possession to the people of Victoria . Indeed so ...
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... Burke holding a top hat in his left hand . Strutt gave him the eyes of a fiery man tinged with melancholy , a ... Robert O'Hara Burke , Melbourne Club ; personal visit to see portrait , 21 December 1974 ; G. Mackaness ( ed . ) , The ...
... Burke holding a top hat in his left hand . Strutt gave him the eyes of a fiery man tinged with melancholy , a ... Robert O'Hara Burke , Melbourne Club ; personal visit to see portrait , 21 December 1974 ; G. Mackaness ( ed . ) , The ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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