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| List of Illustrations and Maps | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Terra Australis Nondum Cognita | |
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| Terra Nullius? | |
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| The Land and the People | |
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| 'Matter of advantageous Return' | |
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| The New Australians | |
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| 'The Finest Harbour in the Universe' | |
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| 'The Dread of Perishing by Famine' | |
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| 'The Disordered and Helpless' | |
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| An Irish Parenthesis | |
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| Mr Boston's Sow | |
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| Pure Bred Merinos | |
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| 'A long era of opulence and peace' | |
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| 'Kind ruler, husband, father, friend - What more can human nature blend?' | |
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| Whigs and Tories | |
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| 'A body of really respectable Settlers' | |
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| 'A perfect martinet' | |
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| A Letter from Sydney | |
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| 'People whose proprietary title to the soil we have not the slightest grounds for disputing' | |
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| Occupied Notices | |
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| 'The moral Governor of the world will hold us accountable' | |
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| The Black War | |
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| 'Persons of violent uncontrollable passions' | |
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| Batman's Colony | |
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| Real Black Gentlemen | |
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| 'The whole of New Holland' | |
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| A Nonconformist Eden | |
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| Moreton Bay and Places North | |
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| Representative Government | |
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| 'Extravagant and absurd pretensions' | |
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| 'If you wouldn't become a kangaroo' | |
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| A Convenient Change of Nomenclature | |
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| 'Extreme inconvenience and loss' | |
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| The Systematic Violation of the Law | |
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| The Capacity to Govern Themselves | |
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| 'The freedom and the institutions of the mother country' | |
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| Victoria Victorious | |
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| Gold | |
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| Eureka | |
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| The Transition to Responsible Government | |
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| New South Wales | |
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| Cocky Farmers | |
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| 'Constitution-tinkering is here continual' | |
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| South Australia | |
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| Tasmania | |
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| Queensland | |
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| Exploration and Expansion | |
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| Waiting 'for something to turn up' | |
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| South Australia's Delusions of Grandeur | |
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| 'They must act in the matter as they please' | |
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| 'A happy application of good sense' | |
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| Federation | |
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| Colonial Quarrels | |
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| 'The magnitude of their ideas is appalling' | |
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| The Federal Council | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| A Second Commonwealth | |
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| Republicans and Nationalists | |
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| The True History of the Kelly Gang | |
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| Sport | |
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| 'What will it cost us to join?' | |
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| 'To assist and explain' | |
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| War | |
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| The Commonwealth Feels its Way | |
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| 'That's the Empire ... And that's what I'm painting' | |
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| 'A working man's paradise' | |
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| Votes for Women | |
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| A Two-Party System | |
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| Defence | |
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| War and Peace | |
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| 'The liberties of the smaller nations' | |
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| What, it might be asked, was it all for? | |
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| 'That's about the size of it, Mr President' | |
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| Setting the Mould | |
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| Labor's Death Wish | |
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| Bridges and Bowlers | |
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| Recovery | |
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| The Far East is our Near North | |
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| Ambling Along | |
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| The Second World War and its Aftermath | |
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| A Public Lynching | |
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| The Home Front | |
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| Foreign Affairs | |
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| Menzies is Back | |
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| Australia in Asia | |
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| The Shadows of Vietnam | |
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| A Third Force | |
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| New Alliances | |
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| 'Konfrontasi' | |
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| Menzies' Big Mistake | |
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| The Second Eleven | |
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| 'Smoothing the pillow of a dying race' | |
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| It's Time | |
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| Crashing Through and Out | |
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| Was the Ref. Fixed? | |
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| Britain Declares Independence | |
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| The Liberals Return | |
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| New Labor | |
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| At Last | |
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| The Coalition Strikes Back | |
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| Australian and British rulers | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |