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ItemThe emergence of a bayside suburb: Sandringham, Victoria c. 1850-1900( 1971-03)The past neglect of the Australian city by historians is frequently the subject of lament. The neglect can be highlighted by noting that not only has the impact of the city been generally avoided in Australian historiography despite its overarching importance but also by the fact that Melbourne and Sydney still lack biographies. By contrast, major British and United States cities have had substantial treatment. Therefore, in the circumstance of very considerable gaps in Australian urban historiography, there is probably little need to justify a research topic which tackles the emergence of Sandringham, a Melbourne suburb in the late 19th century. Apart from the narrow and local purpose of providing a means by which local residents can further identify themselves with their community, a suburb history can provide a case study in urbanization which can be of relevance to the whole field of urban history and more specifically, it can enrich the written history of the city of which it is part.
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ItemE.H. Lascelles and the Victorian Mallee: a survey of settlement 1850-1905( 1966)This survey deals with a portion of the Victorian Mal1ee, in the North-West of the state, stretching from Lake Corrong across to Lake Tyrrell. From 1883 to 1890 the area under wheat in Victoria remained stagnant at about 1,100,000 acres as the process of settling farmers on pastoral lands slowed down. The one area in Victoria where the wheatlands increased in the 1890's and 1900's was the Mallee. E. H. Lascelles was largely responsible for the rapid extension of wheat growing in the area during the 1890's. Geographical considerations play a large part in the Mallee story. The area is isolated, the Mallee growth distinctive and the rainfall light and unpredictable. This survey is an attempt to trace the interaction of man and this environment, with the necessary changes and adaptations which took place as the squatters gave way before the selectors. However because the Mallee covers such a large area - virtually all of the North-West corner of the state - it was impossible to survey the whole in such a short study. So E. H. Lascelles and the belt of country in which he was primarily interested formed a suitable and contained segment of the area, with concentration upon the sub-division schemes at Hopetoun and Tyrrell Downs.
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ItemRadicalism and the Sydney press c. 1838-1846( 1978)Claims by historians about the nature and scope of radical and working class activity in New South Wales before the gold rushes vary considerably. On the one hand stands Robin Gollan's view that until 1848 Australia had nothing that could properly be called a radical movement. On the other stands L. J. Hume's assertion that in 1842 radicalism in association with the working classes reached a peak in New South Wales and thereafter went into a decline. Differing from both Gollan and Hume, Michael Roe argues that a distinct working class political movement began to emerge in 1843 and from then on became progressively stronger. The recent writing of T. H. Irving and others of the New Left has attempted to incorporate the pre-1850 period into broad these about the nineteenth century development of a bourgeois hegemony. To attempt to reconcile these conflicting interpretations would be a futile and impossible exercise. Specific studies can help instead to reveal some of the complexities which have allowed such a disparate group of opinions to be formed. The aim of the present thesis is to develop a new perspective on pre-gold rush radicalism through an examination of the role of Sydney's newspaper press. The period to be considered centres on the 1838-46 years of Sir George Gipps' governorship, but a preliminary study of the background from 1824, (the year when the Australian was founded,) was considered essential. In the course of the thesis it will be shown firstly that the radicalism which emerged in the depression of the early 'forties differed in important ways from the emancipist radicalism which preceded it. Secondly it will be argued that by 1846, the radicals and the newspapers of Sydney had pushed New South Wales a long way on the road to becoming a political, rather than an a-political or anti-political society. Notions of a society divided into mutually hostile groups of employers and employees were thus common subjects of controversy at the end of the depression where they had been virtually unknown before.