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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... larrikin . " The one ambition of the Australian larrikin was to ' play buttress to a public house wall ' , and ' spit moral and material filth ' at every respectable person who passed by him . Every Sunday morning in Sydney about a ...
... larrikin . " The one ambition of the Australian larrikin was to ' play buttress to a public house wall ' , and ' spit moral and material filth ' at every respectable person who passed by him . Every Sunday morning in Sydney about a ...
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... larrikin gangs called packs or ' pushes ' in both cities . Banding together under such names as the Red Rose Pack , the Flying Angels , the Montague Dingoes , the Fitzroy Murderers , and the Richmond Dirty Dozen , they placed themselves ...
... larrikin gangs called packs or ' pushes ' in both cities . Banding together under such names as the Red Rose Pack , the Flying Angels , the Montague Dingoes , the Fitzroy Murderers , and the Richmond Dirty Dozen , they placed themselves ...
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... larrikin class , crowded the dancing pavilion and jostled each other at the drink- ing - bars . With their blood ... larrikins ; Australians might become the Goths and Vandals of that civilization which had been trans- planted to their ...
... larrikin class , crowded the dancing pavilion and jostled each other at the drink- ing - bars . With their blood ... larrikins ; Australians might become the Goths and Vandals of that civilization which had been trans- planted to their ...
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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