Australia
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the Australian Commonwealth
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
British colony and later Commonwealth cited both as the setting of an illustrative anecdote and as an example of advanced socialistic legislation.
It would be ridiculous to assert that the citizens, for example, of the Australian Commonwealth suffer from oppressive laws;
The first man who carried a few rabbits with him to Australia and set them loose there to propagate their offspring at will, was no criminal;
It may therefore be taken for granted that the progress of socialistic legislation and the trial of socialistic experiments in English colonies, such as the Australian Commonwealth, or in the United States, or even in an utterly foreign country, such as France, have promoted the growth of collectivism in England.
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Country named as a site of gold discoveries affecting currency supply, cited in the discussion of currency theories of crises
though the same phenomena precisely have been recorded when currency was somewhat restricted, as, prior to the gold-discoveries in America and Australia, gold coin certainly was;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Continent settled, per the argument, by disproportionately male wandering groups.
There is evidence that some of the islands of the Pacific were populated by boat-loads of men and a few women, and it would be no very violent conjecture that the aborigines of Australia and America originally reached their present homes with the sexes in this proportion.