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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... schools and denominational schools . These sys- tems were soon found to be attended with grave weaknesses . The sites chosen for denominational schools were often unhealthy . In Sydney in 1856 a Roman Catholic school and a Wesleyan school ...
... schools and denominational schools . These sys- tems were soon found to be attended with grave weaknesses . The sites chosen for denominational schools were often unhealthy . In Sydney in 1856 a Roman Catholic school and a Wesleyan school ...
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... schools financed and administered by the State : they must go it alone , raise money , build their own schools , train and appoint their own teachers , and prescribe their own reading books . Henceforth Catholics would have to pay taxes ...
... schools financed and administered by the State : they must go it alone , raise money , build their own schools , train and appoint their own teachers , and prescribe their own reading books . Henceforth Catholics would have to pay taxes ...
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... schools Ireland was presented as the centre of the universe , and England as a place from which had come the men who had reduced the loveliest island on God's earth to a land of skulls . In the national schools the day sometimes began ...
... schools Ireland was presented as the centre of the universe , and England as a place from which had come the men who had reduced the loveliest island on God's earth to a land of skulls . In the national schools the day sometimes began ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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