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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... Marshall - Hall . The Argus accused him of publishing ' immodest and las- civious ' verses . Marshall - Hall had risked tickling the giant of British Philis- tinism in Australia , but he believed that with the wisest and best of ...
... Marshall - Hall . The Argus accused him of publishing ' immodest and las- civious ' verses . Marshall - Hall had risked tickling the giant of British Philis- tinism in Australia , but he believed that with the wisest and best of ...
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... Marshall - Hall a threat to their religion and morality . The parsons , the press , the private schools and the ... Marshall - Hall showed no signs of realizing what he had done . Carried away by the applause of his students , he lashed ...
... Marshall - Hall a threat to their religion and morality . The parsons , the press , the private schools and the ... Marshall - Hall showed no signs of realizing what he had done . Carried away by the applause of his students , he lashed ...
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... Marshall - Hall had been a great success : as a creator he had failed . He had paid a terrible price for attacking the bourgeoisie of Melbourne and had known the deeper pain of artistic failure : he had sown the seeds of British culture ...
... Marshall - Hall had been a great success : as a creator he had failed . He had paid a terrible price for attacking the bourgeoisie of Melbourne and had known the deeper pain of artistic failure : he had sown the seeds of British culture ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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