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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... convicts . That did not endear the leaguers to the members of the convict community . Men stayed away in droves from the dinners of the league which were held to whip up feeling against convict pollution . The leaguers were obliged to ...
... convicts . That did not endear the leaguers to the members of the convict community . Men stayed away in droves from the dinners of the league which were held to whip up feeling against convict pollution . The leaguers were obliged to ...
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... convicts available for hire to employers , male as well as female ; by mid - 1852 there was not a single male available and only a few females . The advantage of cheap convict labour had disappeared , without any corresponding increase ...
... convicts available for hire to employers , male as well as female ; by mid - 1852 there was not a single male available and only a few females . The advantage of cheap convict labour had disappeared , without any corresponding increase ...
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... convict labour , the only way being their separation from New South Wales . At a subsequent meeting in Brisbane on 8 January 1851 they agreed to put three requests to the British government : separation from New South Wales , the ...
... convict labour , the only way being their separation from New South Wales . At a subsequent meeting in Brisbane on 8 January 1851 they agreed to put three requests to the British government : separation from New South Wales , the ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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