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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... railway to improve communication between Melbourne and the bay . At the same time businessmen were complaining that communications between Sydney and Melbourne by land often stood still for weeks together because of the state of the ...
... railway to improve communication between Melbourne and the bay . At the same time businessmen were complaining that communications between Sydney and Melbourne by land often stood still for weeks together because of the state of the ...
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... railway from Ipswich towards the Darling Downs in 1864. South Australia followed suit in 1870. So Australia had three gauges instead of one . When his excellency the governor of New South Wales , the Earl of Belmore , opened the Great ...
... railway from Ipswich towards the Darling Downs in 1864. South Australia followed suit in 1870. So Australia had three gauges instead of one . When his excellency the governor of New South Wales , the Earl of Belmore , opened the Great ...
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... railway construction in Western Australia : lines were completed between Geraldton and Northampton in July 1879 , and between Fremantle , Perth and Guildford in March 1881.40 In 1885 the western railway in Queensland on the way to the ...
... railway construction in Western Australia : lines were completed between Geraldton and Northampton in July 1879 , and between Fremantle , Perth and Guildford in March 1881.40 In 1885 the western railway in Queensland on the way to 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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