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Just blokes doing a job.(William Charles Wentworth )

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| June 01, 2008 | Murray, Robert | COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

As I READ Peter Cochrane's fine book on the beginnings of Australian democracy, William Charles Wentworth seemed less and less like Edmund Burke or Thomas Jefferson and more like John McEwen. The high-toned conservatism of the earlier nineteenth century, with its principle of educated, well-to-do gentlemen serving the community for the welfare of all, increasingly seemed either quaint or hypocritically greedy as it crumbled away and the beginnings of today's society, warts and all, sprang up from the wreckage, like new growth after a fire.

The conservative vision was of a pastoral version of plantation society, with high-minded, gentlemanly graziers controlling ...

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