|
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| Australasia, seven self-governing democratic states claiming to be members of the Empire, |
77
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| Qualifications necessary in a historian, |
78
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| Causes of the failure of more than one Colonial Historian, |
77, 78
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| The anti-democratic bias, |
79
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| Wentworth's failure to create Colonial aristocracy, |
79
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| His love of Australia and his imperial instincts, |
79
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| Colonial autonomy and Colonial aristocracy, |
80
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| Wentworth's proposed Australian House of Lords, |
80
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| Opposed by Robert Lowe in the British House of Commons, |
80
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| and by Henry Parkes in Sydney, |
80
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| If it failed in New South Wales what chance had it in Victoria? |
81
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| Responsible Government in Victoria |
81
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| William Nicholson, |
81
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| Vote by ballot, |
82
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| Democratisation of the constitution, |
82
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| Mr. Rusden's History of Australia, |
82
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| Secret of the rapid triumph of democratic principles, |
84
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| The anti-colonial party, |
83
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| Wentworth and Stawell exceptional, |
84
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| Pessimism of the "upper-class" party, |
85
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| Optimism of the democratic leaders, |
85
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| An appeal to the Privy Council in 1869, |
86
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| Bribers and bribed, |
86
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| Hon. George Higinbotham's reply, |
86, 87
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| His faith in the body politic, |
87
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| Hostility of the English press, |
88
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| Mr. Finch-Hatton's Advance Australia, |
88
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| His estimate of Australian public men, |
89
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| "The wealthy lower orders," |
90
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| Mr. C. H. Pearson, Minister of Education, |
91
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| Sir Charles Dilke's Greater Britain, |
91, 92
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| his chapters on Democracy and Protection, |
91
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| his estimate of Australian public men, |
92
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| Aim of the democratic party, |
93
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