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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... Perth in Western Australia . Soon after the Brenda arrived at Fremantle on 27 January 1852 with the news that the gold - fields of Victoria were reported to be illimitable , the town of Perth appeared mad with excitement ; every third ...
... Perth in Western Australia . Soon after the Brenda arrived at Fremantle on 27 January 1852 with the news that the gold - fields of Victoria were reported to be illimitable , the town of Perth appeared mad with excitement ; every third ...
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... Western Australia . There , as earlier in the eastern colonies , the abomination of flogging had been revived ; the moral sewage of Great Britain had once more been let loose in the Aus- tralian wilderness , corrupting and still further ...
... Western Australia . There , as earlier in the eastern colonies , the abomination of flogging had been revived ; the moral sewage of Great Britain had once more been let loose in the Aus- tralian wilderness , corrupting and still further ...
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... Perth to examine the interior of the continent , hoping to find evidence that Western Australia was not a wilderness interspersed with salt marshes and lakes , barren hills and spinifex deserts . John Forrest hoped to rescue Western ...
... Perth to examine the interior of the continent , hoping to find evidence that Western Australia was not a wilderness interspersed with salt marshes and lakes , barren hills and spinifex deserts . John Forrest hoped to rescue Western ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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