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 69
... camp was a hotbed of corruption , that bribery of officials was commonplace and that the magistrates were bound in an ' unholy compact ' with unsavoury publicans such as Bentley , a crowd of angry diggers gathered near the Eureka Hotel ...
... camp was a hotbed of corruption , that bribery of officials was commonplace and that the magistrates were bound in an ' unholy compact ' with unsavoury publicans such as Bentley , a crowd of angry diggers gathered near the Eureka Hotel ...
Page 76
... camp , boys , to the camp ' . Suddenly another shout was raised : ' Not to the camp , boys , not to the camp , but to our own ground on Bakery Hill ' . The diggers fell into line two abreast behind Captain Ross from Toronto who had ...
... camp , boys , to the camp ' . Suddenly another shout was raised : ' Not to the camp , boys , not to the camp , but to our own ground on Bakery Hill ' . The diggers fell into line two abreast behind Captain Ross from Toronto who had ...
Page 155
... camps running ' Humid Camp ' , ' Muddy Camp ' , and ' Mosquito Camp'.20 On 25 March just after they left Native Dog Camp , Wills found Gray wolfing down the flour . Gray excused himself for pinching more than his ration of flour because ...
... camps running ' Humid Camp ' , ' Muddy Camp ' , and ' Mosquito Camp'.20 On 25 March just after they left Native Dog Camp , Wills found Gray wolfing down the flour . Gray excused himself for pinching more than his ration of flour because ...
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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