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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... thousand merino sheep . In the good seasons of 1872 to 1875 he prospered . Fat sheep were driven to Broken Hill , from where they were trucked to Adelaide . Each year the wool was carted by bullock - dray to Wilcannia , from where it ...
... thousand merino sheep . In the good seasons of 1872 to 1875 he prospered . Fat sheep were driven to Broken Hill , from where they were trucked to Adelaide . Each year the wool was carted by bullock - dray to Wilcannia , from where it ...
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... thousands of Chinese thronged the roads from Cooktown to the gold - fields on the Palmer River . By then it was estimated that there were five thousand Chinese on the fields and it was expected that the number would soon be doubled ...
... thousands of Chinese thronged the roads from Cooktown to the gold - fields on the Palmer River . By then it was estimated that there were five thousand Chinese on the fields and it was expected that the number would soon be doubled ...
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... thousand people turned up for the torchlight procession through the town . A fortnight later he was in Adelaide ... thousand people at Wallsend who shouted , ' Down with Parkes ' . In all his life , he told his wife , he had never ...
... thousand people turned up for the torchlight procession through the town . A fortnight later he was in Adelaide ... thousand people at Wallsend who shouted , ' Down with Parkes ' . In all his life , he told his wife , he had never ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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