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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... Trobe in Melbourne they told him how one of his police officers had placed a double - barrelled gun on the counter of a storekeeper in Bendigo and demanded to see the licence . They also told him that after the storekeeper had exclaimed ...
... Trobe in Melbourne they told him how one of his police officers had placed a double - barrelled gun on the counter of a storekeeper in Bendigo and demanded to see the licence . They also told him that after the storekeeper had exclaimed ...
Page 64
... Trobe for insulting that old and noble nation , the German people . They agreed to meet again on 27 August to debate the proposals that all those in favour of the diggers ' demands should wear on their hats tufts of red cloth or ribbon ...
... Trobe for insulting that old and noble nation , the German people . They agreed to meet again on 27 August to debate the proposals that all those in favour of the diggers ' demands should wear on their hats tufts of red cloth or ribbon ...
Page 65
... Trobe turned another somersault . The licence was restored in a new form . A licence for one month was to cost £ 1 , for three months £ 2 , for six months £ 4 , and for twelve months £ 8 . He of the hat and feathers had done it again ...
... Trobe turned another somersault . The licence was restored in a new form . A licence for one month was to cost £ 1 , for three months £ 2 , for six months £ 4 , and for twelve months £ 8 . He of the hat and feathers had done it again ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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