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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... south of 30 ° south latitude on a line that would be accommodated to suit the natural features of the country . In addition they had decided that the new colony would have a constitution similar to that which the Imperial parliament had ...
... south of 30 ° south latitude on a line that would be accommodated to suit the natural features of the country . In addition they had decided that the new colony would have a constitution similar to that which the Imperial parliament had ...
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... Australia , in parts of South Australia , and in that red sand - plain country on the coast of Western Australia from ... South Australia witnessed for a brief season the victory of human endeavour over the land . In New South Wales ...
... Australia , in parts of South Australia , and in that red sand - plain country on the coast of Western Australia from ... South Australia witnessed for a brief season the victory of human endeavour over the land . In New South Wales ...
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... South Australia followed suit in 1870. So Australia had three gauges instead of one . When his excellency the governor of New South Wales , the Earl of Belmore , opened the Great Southern Railway to Goulburn on 27 May 1869 , the ...
... South Australia followed suit in 1870. So Australia had three gauges instead of one . When his excellency the governor of New South Wales , the Earl of Belmore , opened the Great Southern Railway to Goulburn on 27 May 1869 , the ...
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THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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