A History of Australia: The people make laws, 1888-1915The 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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Page 258
... Ballarat which seemed to spell an end to the prevailing cordiality between the two main bourgeois groups in the House of Representatives . On the night of 24 June 1905 he gave his pre - sessional address to his constituents in the ...
... Ballarat which seemed to spell an end to the prevailing cordiality between the two main bourgeois groups in the House of Representatives . On the night of 24 June 1905 he gave his pre - sessional address to his constituents in the ...
Page 313
... Ballarat Mr Deakin's majority shrank from eight thousand to a slender two hundred , with a humiliating dependence on postal votes . By allowing himself and Australian liberalism to be ' cooked ' he had thrown the floating voters into ...
... Ballarat Mr Deakin's majority shrank from eight thousand to a slender two hundred , with a humiliating dependence on postal votes . By allowing himself and Australian liberalism to be ' cooked ' he had thrown the floating voters into ...
Page 356
... Ballarat , the stamping ground of Mr Deakin since the foundation of the Commonwealth , swung to Labor . Other rural electorates such as Corangamite , Echuca , Flinders , Gippsland , Grampians , Henty , Indi , Wannon and Wimmera in ...
... Ballarat , the stamping ground of Mr Deakin since the foundation of the Commonwealth , swung to Labor . Other rural electorates such as Corangamite , Echuca , Flinders , Gippsland , Grampians , Henty , Indi , Wannon and Wimmera in ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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