Authors

Webb, Sidney and Beatrice

Title

Extract

In

The Webbs' Australian Diary 1898

Editor

Austin, A.G.

Imprint

1898

Description

Scan of photocopy from microfilm across three pages.

Abstract

This is a short extract from the Webbs' Australian diary pf 1898. It touches on the rise of the Labour Party out of the strikes of 1890-1. Touches on William Lane and the New Australian settlement, on the Marxist nature of the Queensland Labour Party and on the Party's ineptitude in the Webb's eyes.

Related entries

Institutions

• Australian Labor Party (1891 - )

People

• Lane, William (1861 - 1917)
• Webb, Beatrice (1858 - 1943)
• Webb, Sidney (1859 - 1947)

Subjects

• New Australia (1892 - c. 1905)
• Strikes and lock-outs

See also

• Marxism
• Socialism - 1800s