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Understanding Eureka and the metal that made us : Comments

By Helen Dehn, published 11/1/2012

The Australian gold rush was the making of the country but is lacking in good analysis.

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Its appropriate that the reviewer indicates she is a member of the Liberal Party because it is unfortunate that Eureka diggers are increasingly depicted as consciously leftwing and lovers of all things Irish (hence anti-English...?).

The influence of American liberal democratic diggers on Eureka should not be dismissed or covered up - another reason to get hold of Norman Bartlett's book.

Planta
Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 12 January 2012 3:16:15 PM
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