The founding of Australia the argument about Australia's origins - Martin, Ged (Sydney Hale & Iremonger Pty Limited, 1978)
1. Introduction -- 2. Documents -- 3. The settlement of Australia / E.C.K. Gonner -- 4. Botany Bay as a trading base -- 5. The first settlements in Australia: considered in relation to sea-power in world politics / K.M. Dallas -- 6. The response to Dallas -- 7. Motives for Australian settlement : a document / Michael Roe -- 8. The 'swing to the East' 1788-1810 / Michael Roe -- 10. Manning clark and the 'evil of overcrowded gaols' -- 11. The choice of Botany Bay / Manning Clark -- 12. The debate in the early 1960s : from Dallas to Blainey -- 13. The tyranny of distance / Geoffrey Blainey -- 14. The hollow conqueror : flax and the foundation of Australia / G.C. Bolton -- 15. Botany bay or Gotham city? / Geoffrey Blainey -- 16. Broken reeds and smoking flax / G.C. Bolton -- 17. The hollow conqueror and the tyranny of distance / A.G.L. Shaw -- 18. A reply : I came, I shaw ... / Geoffrey Blainey -- 19. The 'trading post' theory revived -- 20. 'Cathay and the way thither': the background to Botany Bay / H.T. Fry -- 21. The debate in the 1970s -- 22. The alternatives to Botany Bay / Ged Martin -- 23. A London newspaper on the founding of Botany Bay, August 1786-May 1787 / Ged Martin -- 24. Alan Atkinson and the politics of convict transportation -- 25. Whigs and Tories and Botany Bay / Alan Atkinson -- 26. Alan Frost and the new evidence for the 'flax and naval timber' theory -- 27. The choice of Botany Bay: the scheme to supply the East Indies with naval stores / Alan Frost -- 28. The East India Company and the choice of Botany Bay / Alan Frost -- 29. The debate concluded? -- 30. Economic motives behind the founding of Botany Bay / Ged Martin -- 31. Botany Bay: a further comment / Alan Frost -- 32. Botany Bay: a counter-riposte / Alan Atkinson -- 33. Summary and suggestions for further reading.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-304)
Keywords: Australia -- History -- 1788-1900.