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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... officers ' camp . The ' boy ' officers taunted the diggers with what they would do to them with four troopers armed with whips . Danger was in the air . The diggers unanimously resolved that the licence fee ought to be abolished , that ...
... officers ' camp . The ' boy ' officers taunted the diggers with what they would do to them with four troopers armed with whips . Danger was in the air . The diggers unanimously resolved that the licence fee ought to be abolished , that ...
Page 77
... officers the slogan he had used earlier that week : to risk the camp was to risk the colony . At a council of war that night he and his fellow - officers decided to destroy the stockade and sweep the whole gold - field with shot on the ...
... officers the slogan he had used earlier that week : to risk the camp was to risk the colony . At a council of war that night he and his fellow - officers decided to destroy the stockade and sweep the whole gold - field with shot on the ...
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... officers of exploring expeditions should be gentlemen , either officers of the army , the navy , the police force , civil officers of a rank which gave them access to Government House , or members of the country gentry . He also ...
... officers of exploring expeditions should be gentlemen , either officers of the army , the navy , the police force , civil officers of a rank which gave them access to Government House , or members of the country gentry . He also ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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