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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... constitution conferred on the colony by the Australian Colonies Government Act of 1850. Hargraves did not get his baronetcy , but Wentworth did get his chance to savour the fulfilment of one of the great dreams of his life : to draft a ...
... constitution conferred on the colony by the Australian Colonies Government Act of 1850. Hargraves did not get his baronetcy , but Wentworth did get his chance to savour the fulfilment of one of the great dreams of his life : to draft a ...
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... constitution for the colony to the Legislative Council . In drafting the report he had been influenced by many things . Ever since the news of the revolutions of 1848 had reached the shores of New South Wales , in his mind the ' tocsin ...
... constitution for the colony to the Legislative Council . In drafting the report he had been influenced by many things . Ever since the news of the revolutions of 1848 had reached the shores of New South Wales , in his mind the ' tocsin ...
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... constitution were the ' without which not ' of his great aim to ' sow the seeds of good constitutional principles ' , to make this ' a British community and not a democratic community ' . Having won that part of the battle for ...
... constitution were the ' without which not ' of his great aim to ' sow the seeds of good constitutional principles ' , to make this ' a British community and not a democratic community ' . Having won that part of the battle for ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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