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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1 At the swearing - in ceremony that December Darling expressed his hope that it would be possible to see justice impartially administered to all . His object , he said , was to combine the purposes of a penal colony with the welfare of ...
1 At the swearing - in ceremony that December Darling expressed his hope that it would be possible to see justice impartially administered to all . His object , he said , was to combine the purposes of a penal colony with the welfare of ...
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On 4 December Mannalargenna , a celebrated native chieftain of Van Diemen's Land , became numbered with the dead . On the following day upwards of one hundred aborigines followed the body to the grave . G. A. Robinson , loving and ...
On 4 December Mannalargenna , a celebrated native chieftain of Van Diemen's Land , became numbered with the dead . On the following day upwards of one hundred aborigines followed the body to the grave . G. A. Robinson , loving and ...
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Conservative feeling was now manifesting itself so firmly through England and Scotland that Chief Justice Forbes had quitted London in alarm.19 By 14 December Macarthur was certain that he and the powerful men in Downing Street talked ...
Conservative feeling was now manifesting itself so firmly through England and Scotland that Chief Justice Forbes had quitted London in alarm.19 By 14 December Macarthur was certain that he and the powerful men in Downing Street talked ...
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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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