AUSTRALIANA Biography –

• Establishing religious equality under the law with the Church Act of 1836.
• Reforming the penal system and limiting the arbitrary punishment of convicts.
• Introducing the system of national schools to offer affordable, non-denominational education.
• Approving the layout and founding of Melbourne in 1837.
• First Edition

  • xv, 312 p. : ill., maps. ; 22 cm. #270926

  • First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

    • Settlement and contacts – Colonisation – 1788-1850
    • History – Biographies – Non-Indigenous
    • Race relations – Violent
    • Settlement and contacts – Settlers
    • Race relations – Attitudes
    • New South Wales (NSW)
    • Sydney (NSW SI56-05)

    Subject:

    Bourke, Richard, Sir, 1777-1855