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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... aborigines continued . Near Grafton on 13 August 1853 a party of blacks entered a shepherd's hut and dragged a white woman outside . While two threatened her with nulla - nullas , a third used ' the poor helpless woman as he thought ...
... aborigines continued . Near Grafton on 13 August 1853 a party of blacks entered a shepherd's hut and dragged a white woman outside . While two threatened her with nulla - nullas , a third used ' the poor helpless woman as he thought ...
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... aborigines who worked for the white men were also absconding , while the nomads threw spears at constables or sheep , for which , if caught , they received two dozen lashes . Nothing the white man did had the slightest effect on the ...
... aborigines who worked for the white men were also absconding , while the nomads threw spears at constables or sheep , for which , if caught , they received two dozen lashes . Nothing the white man did had the slightest effect on the ...
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... aborigines the act of murder was a legitimate reprisal for injuries inflicted by Europeans against their people ... aborigines continued to display hostility after this first act of pacification , and repeated what the aborigines of Port ...
... aborigines the act of murder was a legitimate reprisal for injuries inflicted by Europeans against their people ... aborigines continued to display hostility after this first act of pacification , and repeated what the aborigines of Port ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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