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...Springvale homestead, an hour's drive from Halls Creek, was the home of legendary cattleman and bush poet Tom Quilty. Until the 1886 gold rush, the station was one of this region's few inhabited places. Historian Geoffrey Blainey described men with gold lust traveling the final 1,000 km from Katherine. "The manager of Spring Vale reported that 'great numbers of men from Queensland have passed by, some of them very undesirable characters, who prefer picking their own beef and horse-flesh,'" he writes in The Rush That Never Ended. "They faked the brands on their stolen horses with...
Historian Geoffrey Blainey is among those who argue for reducing immigration, but other analysts find the notion unrealistic. "Human movement is the feature of our epoch. Nations that put up barriers will no longer be part of any world community," says Mary Kalantzis, a historian at Wollongong University's Center for Multicultural Studies. Kalantzis thinks old forms of national identity that seek to forge a nation around a single ethnic group are no longer viable...
...accuracy of troubled social backgrounds the audience is engaged sympathetically. The wronged heroes of The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes and now Frenzy are trapped by histories of international war and British impotence. The first two innocents were caught up in pre-World War II subterfuge; Dick Blainey of Frenzy is a ripe Jimmy Porter figure, an RAF squadron leader (when could he have flown--during Suez?) unable to rise successfully on the rungs of the Welfare State...
...executive committee of the Harvard Union for the present half year is constituted as follows: C. P. Blainey, chairman ex-officio; H. Hudson, '91, S. C. Brackett, '91, C. T. R. Bates, '92, and a freshman member to be chosen...
...regular meeting of the Harvard Union last night, Mr. Tileston, '90 was elected a member. The society then proceeded to elect officers. For president, Messrs. C. P. Blainey, D. C. Torrey, and E. S. Griffing were nominated. Griffing was elected, getting eleven votes out of twenty. For vice president, Mr. C. P. Blaney was unanimously elected. For treasurer and secretary, Mr. George P. Costigan was re-elected unanimously. Mr. Dodge read a report for the vice-president, stating that in the past half year the Union has held seven meetings, elected eleven new members, and had at each debate from...