A FREE AUSTRALIA.
Speaking at the annual dinner of the I Hibernian Benefit Sooiety, Father Bunbury lamented the decadence of an independent spirit among Irishmen and their descendants in Australia. "We are now entirely directly ruled from the Mother Country, and whatever is dictated by the Imperial Government we must abide by." The most prominent publio men did not seem to have the spirit to stand up and say that Australia will be a nation. If it had the real Irish spirit and feeling it would carry out that policy here, and be loyal to no Imperialism, but to a free institution and a free flag.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7398, 26 February 1902, Page 2
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106A FREE AUSTRALIA. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7398, 26 February 1902, Page 2
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