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Edward Shann. An Economic History of Australia
An Economic History of Australia
Table of Contents
PREFACE
BOOK ONE CONVICTS, WOOL & GOLD 1788-1860
CHAPTER I. Governor Phillip and the Establishment
CHAPTER II. The New South Wales Corps
CHAPTER III. A Conflict of Evils
CHAPTER IV "Governor Macquarie's Bank"
CHAPTER V. An Autocrat in a Hurry
CHAPTER VI. John Bull's Greater Woolsack
CHAPTER VII. Pioneering in the Pastoral Industry
CHAPTER VIII. Shepherding and Marketing
CHAPTER IX. Free Colonies and Assisted Migration
CHAPTER X. From Transportation to Family Life
CHAPTER XI. The Gold Rushes of 1851-1860
BOOK TWO CONVICT PARTICULARISM 1860-1900
CHAPTER XII "Unlocking the Land" in New South Wales
CHAPTER XIII. Agricultural Settlement in the Southern Colonies
CHAPTER XIV. Plantation Slavery and Secession for North Queensland
CHAPTER XV. An Apostle of Restriction
CHAPTER XVI. Inland Transport
CHAPTER XVII. The Land Boom
CHAPTER XVIII. Labour Shows Fight
CHAPTER XIX. The Bank Smash and Economic Reconstruction
CHAPTER XX. Back to Colonizing
BOOK THREE THE COMMONWEALTH
CHAPTER XXI. The Origins and Extension of Wage-Fixing
CHAPTER XXII. Strength and Protection
CHAPTER XXIII. How Tariff Protection Grows
CHAPTER XXIV "Protection All Round"
INDEX
THE END
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Edward Shann
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Bligh awaited the opportunity of an abundant harvest before abolishing the fixed official price of wheat.* He had hopes that the scarcity he found at his arrival would more effectively than any admonition "teach the settlers to be more provident and industrious". "Considerable importation", he reasoned, "would lead to great indifference, as it would reduce the price of grain and make it not worth their while to grow it." In this he was more considerate than his successor, whose importations were to produce precisely that depressing effect.** "When they begin to find a regular market for their grain", concluded Bligh, "agriculture will be the chief pursuit both here and at the out-settlements." But in taking the role of patron of agriculture, Bligh was moved by other motives than those of economic reason.
[* This was 5s. per bushel in 1790, 10s. from 1791 to 1800, 8s. until 1804, 7s. at the Hawkesbury, 7s. 6d. at Sydney from 1804 to 1806, 15s. in 1806 and 10s. a bushel until 1822. See Coghlan, Labour and Industry in Australia, vol. I, pp. 142 and 277.]
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