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Ernest Findlay Scott. A Short History of Australia
A Short History of Australia
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LIST OF MAPS
CHRONOLOGY
LIST OF GOVERNORS AND MINISTRIES
A SHORT HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER I - THE DAWN OF DISCOVERY
CHAPTER II - THE DUTCH AND NEW HOLLAND
CHAPTER III - DAMPIER AND COOK
CHAPTER IV - THE FOUNDATION OF Sydney
CHAPTER V - THE CONVICT SYSTEM
CHAPTER VI - GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNORS
CHAPTER VII - FURTHER EXPLORATIONS
CHAPTER VIII - THE EXTENSION OF SETTLEMENT
CHAPTER IX - THE LAST OF THE TYRANTS
CHAPTER X - THE DAWN OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER XI - THE PROBLEM OF THE RIVERS
CHAPTER XII - THE FOUNDING OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER XIII - SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND THE WAKEFIELD THEORY
CHAPTER XIV - THE PORT PHILLIP DISTRICT
CHAPTER XV - FROM VAN DIEMEN'S LAND TO TASMANIA
CHAPTER XVI - THE LAND AND THE SQUATTERS
CHAPTER XVII - THE END OF CONVICTISM
CHAPTER XVIII - SELF-GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER XIX - GOLD
CHAPTER XX - THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT
CHAPTER XXI - QUEENSLAND
CHAPTER XXII - THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
CHAPTER XXIII - DEMOCRACY AT WORK - (a) GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER XXIV - DEMOCRACY AT WORK - (b) LAND, LABOUR, AND THE POPULAR WELFARE
CHAPTER XXV - PAPUA AND THE PACIFIC
CHAPTER XXVI - THE MOVEMENT TOWARDS FEDERATION
CHAPTER XXVII - THE CONSTITUTION
CHAPTER XXVIII - THE COMMONWEALTH - (a) PARTIES AND PERSONALITIES
CHAPTER XXIX - THE COMMONWEALTH - (b) THE WHEELS OF POLICY
CHAPTER XXX - AUSTRALIA IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918
CHAPTER XXXI - FROM THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR
CHAPTER XXXII - IMPERIAL RELATIONS AND THE AUSTRALIAN SPIRIT
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
APPENDIX - SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRALIA
The End
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Ernest Scott
Published by Good Press, 2022
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On January 26 Phillip unfurled the British flag at Sydney with simple ceremony, the King's health was drunk, and work began. The process of clearing the ground and erecting shelters was taken in hand with the utmost vigour. The Governor himself, while the work progressed, lived in a small canvas house which was neither wind nor water proof. The officers, marines, and convicts camped in tents made principally from old sail-cloth which had been brought from England for the purpose. Spaces were cleared for the sowing of corn, trees were cut down for the building of wooden huts, stores were landed from the ships, labour was organized for shaping a disciplined community out of fractious elements and replacing wild forest and scrub with a planned, orderly township. On February 7 the Governor's commission was read, and he took the oaths required by law before an assemblage of the whole population, civil, military, and convicts. One of the oaths which he was required to take was that abjuring the Pretender. This was the last occasion when it was taken by a Governor within the British Empire, for Charles Edward Stuart had died on January 31, 1788, a week before Phillip solemnly abjured him and his claims to the British throne.
To few men has been given so great an opportunity as that which fell to Arthur Phillip. He was the founder of a new European State in a land where civilized man had never lived before. There was not one among all the subjects of King George III whose place in history was more assured than his. The ambition to live in the memory of posterity for ages is common among mankind. Monuments of bronze and marble, public bequests and endowments, gifts and foundations, are favourite modes of cheating oblivion; and the age in which this history was being worked out saw many great reputations made and many efforts to perpetuate fame by various means. But who amongst them all did a piece of work to compare with Phillip's? And who amongst them all overcame such difficulties with such imperfect material, and reaped so small a material reward?
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