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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... labour , which meant having numbers of convicts collected for this purpose at the stations where their labour was required . He believed that lads capable of being reformed should be assigned to the best and most respectable proprietors ...
... labour , which meant having numbers of convicts collected for this purpose at the stations where their labour was required . He believed that lads capable of being reformed should be assigned to the best and most respectable proprietors ...
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... labour for a limited period only . They were in one respect worse off than the West Indian negro , for they suffered the additional misery of knowing they had been their own tormentors . Or so Arthur thought , for Arthur was a deeply ...
... labour for a limited period only . They were in one respect worse off than the West Indian negro , for they suffered the additional misery of knowing they had been their own tormentors . Or so Arthur thought , for Arthur was a deeply ...
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... labour ? On this the abolitionists did not have it all their own way . Some doubted whether the colony had reached a stage where it could afford to dispense with convict labour . They were told it was true that if the whole of the ...
... labour ? On this the abolitionists did not have it all their own way . Some doubted whether the colony had reached a stage where it could afford to dispense with convict labour . They were told it was true that if the whole of the ...
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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