“The Coming Event!”
Journal: Politeja
Year: 2019

John Dunmore Lang’s Vision for an Independent Australia&#x0D; John Dunmore Lang, the Scottish Presbyterian clergyman who settled in Sydney in 1823, until his death in 1878 played an important role in the religious, political and cultural life of New South Wales and helped to create two new colonies: Victoria and Queensland. His writings as much as his political and educational activities significantly contributed to the rise of early Australian nationalism. Lang envisaged a great future of a fed