Poor Australians and social welfare 1788-1988
by
Stephen Garton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1990
'The distribution of wealth is far more equal. To begin with, there is no poor class in the colonies. Comfortable incomes are in the majority, millionaires few and far between.'
This opinion, voiced a century ago by a British journalist on a tour of the colonies, sums up the widely-held and...