A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every person, traits forced to the fore in the hardship and trauma that occured during the establishment and develpment of white settlement in Australia. Clark sets out to use the tragedies and successes of national heroes such as explorerers and generals, and those of the average person such as soldiers at Gallipoli and farmer's wives, to create a memorable tableau. |
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So settlement was to spread — and the aborigine to be doomed , but the mind of my lord Bathurst was not on those men with their feet on the lowest rung of the ladder of human life . The incorrigible were to be sent to penal settlements ...
So settlement was to spread — and the aborigine to be doomed , but the mind of my lord Bathurst was not on those men with their feet on the lowest rung of the ladder of human life . The incorrigible were to be sent to penal settlements ...
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My lord Bathurst was very gracious . In the following year he accepted Scott's ideas , promised to establish a Church and School Corporation for the colony of New South Wales , and offered Scott the position of Archdeacon and head of ...
My lord Bathurst was very gracious . In the following year he accepted Scott's ideas , promised to establish a Church and School Corporation for the colony of New South Wales , and offered Scott the position of Archdeacon and head of ...
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A year earlier , fearful lest the system of granting land might contribute to an age of barbarism in New South Wales , my lord Bathurst in January of 1825 had told Brisbane of the injury to society when land remained in a barren state ...
A year earlier , fearful lest the system of granting land might contribute to an age of barbarism in New South Wales , my lord Bathurst in January of 1825 had told Brisbane of the injury to society when land remained in a barren state ...
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Contents
THE SETTING IN NEW SOUTH WALES | 17 |
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
THE NATIVE SON OFFENDS GROSSLY | 61 |
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