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The Boom & Bust Years: Is It All About Greed?

Land sharks, shysters, con men and investors! Who could tell them apart? And didn’t everyone want their piece of the action in the 1880s? “Marvellous Melbourne” would be created then wracked by the optimism and despair of this period of economic growth and disruption.
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© Meg Dillon 2008
Australian Colonial History
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Moments in Australian

History

The Boom & Bust Years: Is It All

About Greed?

Land sharks, shysters, con men and investors! Who could tell them apart? And didn’t everyone want their piece of the action in the 1880s? “Marvellous Melbourne” would be created then wracked by the optimism and despair of this period of economic growth and disruption.
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