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Re-Framing Australia
Barry Jones
“The Australian colonies began very unpromisingly as a convict society built on Aboriginal dispossession. Nevertheless, robust elected institutions soon developed. There was responsible government by the 1850s, full manhood suffrage by the 1860s, the secret ballot (a local invention) and payment of members. By the end of the 19th century, the Australian colonies had bustling cities …”
