Moreover, because of the knowledge of human economic activity that Bruce Pascoe and Bill Gammage reveal in Dark Emu and The Biggest Estate on Earth, the impact of the hundreds of generations of the first peoples who lived here before the British came is critical to understanding the places where Australians live today.
A couple of days before Christmas, King is in her constituency office, wrestling with the office software, writing letters to the housing department and tenants of the biggest estate on her patch.
The big estate holdings of the French "colons" have already been nationalized, and vast numbers of French settlers have already cut their losses and returned to France.
In the 1962 election campaign, he made his followers extravagant promises that were probably unrealizable, including jobs for the unemployed, the division and distribution of big estates to landless farm workers, better housing and higher living standards.
Also you can take advantage of the fact that it's divided into large estates because you only have to win over a few of those big estates to make a change.
So far, only two big estates, one of them belonging to Britain's Vestey Group, have been partly expropriated; hundreds more are under scrutiny.
It's an old stove house – a Victorian glasshouse in the gardens of a big estate that was used to grow exotic fruits for the gentry.
The boss of one big estate agency group, Ludlow Thompson said the chancellor is now treating the buy-to-let market "like the tobacco industry".
A fascinating biography of a remarkable woman, an Anglo-American heiress who became the lady of a big estate in Tuscany, where she knew everybody, worked hard, taught peasants to read, helped people escape Fascism and wrote beautifully on many subjects.
Hosted by comedians Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc and judged by bakers Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood — names not created for the show — it's filmed in an open-air pavilion on the lawn of some big estate the people who live there probably call a country house.
