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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Staggered by the enormous burden of running the colony of New South Wales , which , in the year 1822 , had cost the British taxpayer £ 450,000 , swayed by rumours trickling back to London of the moral evils of building a society from ...
Staggered by the enormous burden of running the colony of New South Wales , which , in the year 1822 , had cost the British taxpayer £ 450,000 , swayed by rumours trickling back to London of the moral evils of building a society from ...
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Now , thanks to Brisbane , New South Wales was no longer a penal settlement : a British public inhabited the territory , and enjoyed a free press . “ ? The following day people flocked to the Court House to consider the propriety of ...
Now , thanks to Brisbane , New South Wales was no longer a penal settlement : a British public inhabited the territory , and enjoyed a free press . “ ? The following day people flocked to the Court House to consider the propriety of ...
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They must look to a reformed Parliament in London and the British public to procure for them a British constitution . He then moved the first resolution : " That the Colony of Van Diemen's Land , being purely and essentially British ...
They must look to a reformed Parliament in London and the British public to procure for them a British constitution . He then moved the first resolution : " That the Colony of Van Diemen's Land , being purely and essentially British ...
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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 |
Copyright | |
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