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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... capitalist shaking hands in love and charity with a clean - living worker . The only visible difference between the two was their dress : the capitalist wore a tie and coat , the worker wore neither . By the late 1880s workers demanded ...
... capitalist shaking hands in love and charity with a clean - living worker . The only visible difference between the two was their dress : the capitalist wore a tie and coat , the worker wore neither . By the late 1880s workers demanded ...
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... capitalist society , it must make a broad appeal . If the expedients deemed necessary to obtain power conflicted with principle , then principle must bend . A Labor government was preferable to any capitalist government . So for the ...
... capitalist society , it must make a broad appeal . If the expedients deemed necessary to obtain power conflicted with principle , then principle must bend . A Labor government was preferable to any capitalist government . So for the ...
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... capitalist society . The first issue of the Sydney Worker after the conference carried a cartoon of a capitalist squinting down the barrel of a revolver , inscribed ' Federal Labor Conference ' . The capitalist asked : ' I wonder if the ...
... capitalist society . The first issue of the Sydney Worker after the conference carried a cartoon of a capitalist squinting down the barrel of a revolver , inscribed ' Federal Labor Conference ' . The capitalist asked : ' I wonder if the ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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