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At the time of federation nearly all ( white ) Australians , like other people of European descent , believed that ' coloured people ' were innately , genetically inferior to whites . Nevertheless , Federal Parliament was , almost from ...
At the time of federation nearly all ( white ) Australians , like other people of European descent , believed that ' coloured people ' were innately , genetically inferior to whites . Nevertheless , Federal Parliament was , almost from ...
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He also believed , no doubt , in the importance of his own possession of power and in the unimportance of the methods by which he achieved it . His two overriding passions were for a fairer distribution of this world's goods within the ...
He also believed , no doubt , in the importance of his own possession of power and in the unimportance of the methods by which he achieved it . His two overriding passions were for a fairer distribution of this world's goods within the ...
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Many Western Australians had long believed that they were severely disadvantaged by federal policies , particularly by the settled national policy of protection for secondary industries . With a population of less than 500 ooo in 1933 ...
Many Western Australians had long believed that they were severely disadvantaged by federal policies , particularly by the settled national policy of protection for secondary industries . With a population of less than 500 ooo in 1933 ...
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Contents
A NATION FOR A CONTINENT c 19001903 | 12 |
Legislation and White Australia | 29 |
New Protection and the Basic Wage | 46 |
Copyright | |
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