The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History (1966)
“The value of subsidised migration was not simply in the working men it brought to Australia. Its value was also in the women it enticed to a man's land. One of Australia's sharpest social problems, and one of the problems which Edward Gibbon Wakefield lamented, was the scarcity of women of marriageable or elopable age. So long as Australia primarily served as a gaol for the British Isles, far more men than women came to the land.”
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History (1966)
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