[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter XII Pereat! (The flaming elections) Decks clear for action! What matter if a world outside cries horror over thee, Australia? Better be Devil than King Log, croaked over by … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter XII [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
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Part I Chapter XI [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter XI Furor Australiensis So Australia, at last, was made to wake up — under sledge-hammer blows: Imperial attempt of legislative interference, annihilation of naval screen, … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter XI [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
Part I Chapter X [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter X Pax Britannica The events under review being of contemporary occurrence it is naturally impossible to lay bare the hidden springs which actuated international politics and the … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter X [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
Part I Chapter IX [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter IX Parliament Australia was feverish. But its symptoms were quite different from those manifested in the sister dominions, where the colder climate makes people heavy and … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter IX [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
Part I Chapter VIII [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter VIII Colonial fancies The arrival at Port Darwin of the Japanese deputation, and the public professions of loyalty to the British flag by its members, induced the Imperial … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter VIII [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
Part I Chapter VII [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter VII Naval power and world politics “The supremacy of the British Navy [1] is the safety of Australia, and this supremacy is absolute.” That was the conviction in which the people … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter VII [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
Part I Chapter VI [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter VI A study of British sentiment The Japanese descent upon the Northern Territory had been well timed. Over the world of white men there lingered the afterglow of an epoch of … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter VI [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
Part I Chapter V [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter V Australia’s reply The flutter of excitement into which the Commonwealth had been thrown by the cablegrams from Thursday Island relating to the Changsha discovery, died quickly … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter V [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
Part I Chapter IV [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter IV Japan explains The Japanese colony in the Northern Territory had been successfully founded. Of its first period of existence and growth no official information has yet become … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter IV [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
Part I Chapter III [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter III Dancing on a volcano Thomas Burt and his friend reached Pine Creek on April 6; exhausted and dishevelled. Their news created such an impression locally that a railway engine … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter III [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
Part I Chapter II [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter II An unadvertised immigration policy For several years preceding 1912 constant reports of famine in Japan had reached Europe. Travellers had vouchsafed for their accuracy, and … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter II [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
Part I Chapter I [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Part I The Feet of Clay Chapter I Ships that pass in the night In the evening of April 1, 1912, two white men were camping upon a sandy rise overlooking Junction Bay, Northern … [Read more...] about Part I Chapter I [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
Preface [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This is the preface from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Preface “The Australian Crisis” is the final result of an attempt on my part, early in 1907, to write a magazine article dealing with the dangers to which the neighbourhood of overcrowded … [Read more...] about Preface [The Australian Crisis, by C.H. Kirmess, 1909]
The Australian Crisis [novel by C. H. Kirmess, 1909]
[Editor: This novel about a Japanese invasion of Australia was written by Charles H. Kirmess. The story was originally published as a serial in The Lone Hand (Sydney) from October 1908 to August 1909, under the title of “The Commonwealth Crisis”; it was then published in book … [Read more...] about The Australian Crisis [novel by C. H. Kirmess, 1909]
Homesick [poem by Dorothy Frances McCrae, 1909]
Homesick. I’m sick of fog and yellow gloom, Of faces strange, and alien eyes, Your London is a vault, a tomb, To those born ’neath Australian skies. Oh, land of gold and burning blue, I’m crying like a child for you! The trees are tossing in the park Against the … [Read more...] about Homesick [poem by Dorothy Frances McCrae, 1909]
Introduction [by Bertram Stevens, in “The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse”, 1909]
[Editor: This introduction to The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse (1909) by Bertram Stevens gives a brief history of Australian literature and poetry, from the founding of the colony in New South Wales in 1788, up to about 1900.] Introduction As the literature of a … [Read more...] about Introduction [by Bertram Stevens, in “The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse”, 1909]