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82 No matter what excuses Brady made publicly and no matter what faith he still overtly retained in the cp-operative settlement as a practical application of collectivist and socialistic principles, he must have had private doubts. He wrote to a friend on the staff of the Brisbane Worker: I did my level damnedest to make the <strong>Mallacoota</strong> scheme a success and it just about beggared me. I have got to admit that the management down there proved bad. I was up to my neck in the political morass here at the time and could not give it my personal supervision. But even if I had, I doubt if it could have been converted into a success. I had a good strong sympathetic socialist committee which also did its best. My conclusions are that these utopian schemes within the Capitalist system are not possible. 1 If it proved nothing else, the <strong>Mallacoota</strong> Community Farm experiment proved that Brady had sufficient faith and belief in his convictions – in the theoretical principles of collective socialism – to believe in their practical application. He was, in the good Australian phrase, willing to “have a go”. His courage deserves some credit; his intention to help the unemployed deserves a great deal of credit. It provided one more item of evidence that Brady was humanitarian in outlook and sympathetic in practice. 1 Brady to John S. Hanlon, 24.1.1934, in National Library.
Chapter Five Brady’s verse. “The bardic mantle that I wear Is not meseems, a fabric rare; But there are threads among its seams Of high resolve and noble dreams.” Brady, “For Marjorie”. 83
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A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF EDWIN JAMES
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PREFACE The main collection of Brad
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2 Edwin James Brady was born at Car
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4 After days had gone, days and nig
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6 The sea was to continue top hold
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8 By the girls we love, by the God
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10 The regular Sunday night lecture
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12 The Star that I, fool, dreamed y
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14 Out of these acquaintances and f
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16 Writing sixty-eight extra column
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18 The first book of collected vers
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20 When the panoply and splendor Of
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22 Brady accepted the position grat
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24 As well as editing The Native Co
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26 Even this was a limited vacation
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28 Chapter Two - Biographical accou
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30 In answer to a letter requesting
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Page 38 and 39: 34 As well as the verse he was writ
Page 40 and 41: 36 With the approach of the depress
Page 42 and 43: 38 He had samples of the ore of thi
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Page 46 and 47: 42 This event seems to have broken
Page 48 and 49: 44 Amusingly, he regarded the black
Page 50 and 51: 46 At the age of eighty-one Brady c
Page 52 and 53: 48 Brady’s interest in politics w
Page 54 and 55: 50 Brady, along with others, joined
Page 56 and 57: 52 Of course it is possible to make
Page 58 and 59: 54 The Christian gospel embodying t
Page 60 and 61: 56 The excess of emotion in much of
Page 62 and 63: 58 Recognising man’s fear that gr
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Page 66 and 67: 62 The unselfishness and self-sacri
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Page 76 and 77: 72 Chapter Four Utopian theories an
Page 78 and 79: 74 He was also impressed by the Jew
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Page 82 and 83: 78 The upshot of all this activity
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Page 90 and 91: 86 Henry Lawson (“Joe Swallow”)
Page 92 and 93: 88 While both Brady and Lawson sang
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Page 96 and 97: 92 Taking my shivering trick at the
Page 98 and 99: 94 A lonely shepherd heard the clas
Page 100 and 101: 96 Master! I mourned, it is so writ
Page 102 and 103: 98 It is significant too, that the
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Page 106 and 107: 102 Considering the fact that many
Page 108 and 109: 104 While is would be obviously imp
Page 110 and 111: 106 “But in real life, my readers
Page 112 and 113: 108 Where emotions are vivid, tendi
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Page 124 and 125: 120 I’ve had swagsman roast, swag
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Page 132 and 133: 128 After scraping the charcoal fro
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132 For instance, Archibald’s com
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134 There are a few incidents which
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138 Although he can avoid the commo
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140 Whether it is the picture given
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142 The desirability of publicising
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144 These writings won for Brady a
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146 Chapter Seven Brady as editor a
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148 Recognising that the author of
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150 Another issue which was receivi
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152 Rejecting the “moral quaranti
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154 As he did in some of his contem
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156 He must be able to work 23 hour
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158 A simultaneous campaign in The
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160 The memorial accomplished nothi
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162 This militancy was soon followe
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164 Of Gilbert Murray Brady wrote:
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166 Quite a lot of Australian liter
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168 His conclusion that Lawson was
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170 Brady was in a strong position
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172 The other poem was inspired by
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174 But such a wish was not to be.
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176 The work for which Quinn is rem
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178 For aye the Bird of Fantasy San
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180 Explaining the term to another
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182 The same judgment which recogni
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186 Having read the works of anothe
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188 In the 1880”s and 90’s lite
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190 his withdrawal from active poli
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192 Whatever posterity selects from
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194 EPILOGUE
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196 1 Unpublished A Primary Sources
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198 My Blackfellow Book, short stor
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200 vii Verse. Some of the poems in
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202 iii Introductions, Forewords, e
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204 B Secondary Sources 1. Books Th
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206 1V Collected material. Steve Fo
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208 Pseudonyms Peter Amos in Truth
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210 Appendix three Articles of Asso
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