Founding Moments
Stuart Macintyre, 11 March 1993
The Oxford History of Australia. Vol. II, 1770-1860: Possessions
by Jan Kociumbas.
Oxford, 397 pp., £25, September 1992,0 19 554610 5 Show More
by Jan Kociumbas.
Oxford, 397 pp., £25, September 1992,
The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Power in Early New South Wales
by David Neal.
Cambridge, 266 pp., £30, March 1992,9780521372640 Show More
by David Neal.
Cambridge, 266 pp., £30, March 1992,
Waterloo Creek: The Australia Day Massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British Conquest of New South Wales
by Roger Milliss.
McPhee Gribble, 965 pp., February 1992,0 86914 156 2 Show More
by Roger Milliss.
McPhee Gribble, 965 pp., February 1992,
Living in a New Country: History, Travelling and Language
by Paul Carter.
Faber, 214 pp., £14.99, July 1992,0 571 16329 7 Show More
by Paul Carter.
Faber, 214 pp., £14.99, July 1992,
“... tautology and an oxymoron, created the conditions for a free society. Yet the insistent lesson of Roger Milliss’s massive account of the fatal impact of the newcomers on the indigenous inhabitants, as played out in a series of bloody encounters in New South Wales during the late 1830s, is the signal failure of the rule of law. Paul Carter’s essays ... ”
