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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... God in the Australian bush : there was a Christ - figure , a Samaritan who showed mercy , pity and loving kindness to all human beings . Mateship and the quality of human kindness in his heart were the ' rough link ' twixt the bushman and ...
... God in the Australian bush : there was a Christ - figure , a Samaritan who showed mercy , pity and loving kindness to all human beings . Mateship and the quality of human kindness in his heart were the ' rough link ' twixt the bushman and ...
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... God's world . Men and women had concluded that the eternal torment and suffering of the damned was too great a price to pay for universal harmony . Thirty years had passed since that gentle spirit Henry Bournes Higgins had grown up in ...
... God's world . Men and women had concluded that the eternal torment and suffering of the damned was too great a price to pay for universal harmony . Thirty years had passed since that gentle spirit Henry Bournes Higgins had grown up in ...
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... God's plan for man : the war was God's way of chastising man : war was a cleansing fire , out of which the British , the defenders of the right against might , of ' little Belgium ' and the avengers of the Kaiser's arrogant references ...
... God's plan for man : the war was God's way of chastising man : war was a cleansing fire , out of which the British , the defenders of the right against might , of ' little Belgium ' and the avengers of the Kaiser's arrogant references ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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