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 130
... Sydney radicals and the diggers on the gold - fields that political power should be based purely on population . He wanted land reform , but he wanted the land thrown open to men of substance , and shied away from all this dangerous ...
... Sydney radicals and the diggers on the gold - fields that political power should be based purely on population . He wanted land reform , but he wanted the land thrown open to men of substance , and shied away from all this dangerous ...
Page 359
... Sydney increased from 137 586 in 1871 to 224 939 in 1881 ; in the same decade the population of Melbourne increased from 206 780 to 282 947. Between 1870 and 1890 there had been a substantial growth of manufacturing in both Melbourne ...
... Sydney increased from 137 586 in 1871 to 224 939 in 1881 ; in the same decade the population of Melbourne increased from 206 780 to 282 947. Between 1870 and 1890 there had been a substantial growth of manufacturing in both Melbourne ...
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... Sydney was there talk of some subterranean explosion , or of the human antheap in the working - class districts of the two suburbs erupting into violence or barbarizing the whole of society . Mel- bourne and Sydney had a social problem ...
... Sydney was there talk of some subterranean explosion , or of the human antheap in the working - class districts of the two suburbs erupting into violence or barbarizing the whole of society . Mel- bourne and Sydney had a social problem ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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