The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Part 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... Australia by 1200 miles of ocean , and , like Australia , is inhabited by a people rapidly de- veloping its own individuality . Both are new countries , British self - governing Dominions of nearly the same age , standing solitary in ...
... Australia by 1200 miles of ocean , and , like Australia , is inhabited by a people rapidly de- veloping its own individuality . Both are new countries , British self - governing Dominions of nearly the same age , standing solitary in ...
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... Australia , after the temporary political connection with New South Wales had come to an end , were for some time confined mainly to questions of trade and postal communications . The distance between the two countries was a formidable ...
... Australia , after the temporary political connection with New South Wales had come to an end , were for some time confined mainly to questions of trade and postal communications . The distance between the two countries was a formidable ...
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... Australia was more clearly defined in a despatch of Governor Sir W. Jervois , on 6 December 1884 : There is certainly a general feeling throughout the country against federation in the ordinary sense of the term , arising partly from ...
... Australia was more clearly defined in a despatch of Governor Sir W. Jervois , on 6 December 1884 : There is certainly a general feeling throughout the country against federation in the ordinary sense of the term , arising partly from ...
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