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 161
... John Forrest for protection . So the John Bull of the West , the man who boasted of his contempt for the Rights of Man , the man who feared that the inhabitants of the fields might use their numbers to force Western Australia to accept ...
... John Forrest for protection . So the John Bull of the West , the man who boasted of his contempt for the Rights of Man , the man who feared that the inhabitants of the fields might use their numbers to force Western Australia to accept ...
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... John Forrest , the conservatives in his government coun- selled delay . Chris Watson warned Deakin to go slow on immigration lest he provoke the wrath of organized labour in the eastern states . The Sydney Morning Herald thought ...
... John Forrest , the conservatives in his government coun- selled delay . Chris Watson warned Deakin to go slow on immigration lest he provoke the wrath of organized labour in the eastern states . The Sydney Morning Herald thought ...
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... John Forrest countered with a demand to go ' straight on ' without any understanding or alliance with anyone , and for God's sake not to give any man a pretext for believing that the Labor Party was Mr Deakin's master . Mr Deakin must ...
... John Forrest countered with a demand to go ' straight on ' without any understanding or alliance with anyone , and for God's sake not to give any man a pretext for believing that the Labor Party was Mr Deakin's master . Mr Deakin must ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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