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The Diggers Club is Australia's largest gardening club, with over 85,000 members.. They were established in 1978 to provide diverse seeds and plants which were claimed to be disappearing from circulation and promoted heirloom fruit and vegetable revival in the 1990s.
Robert Bunning (13 December 1859 – 12 August 1936) was an English-born Western Australian businessman involved in the construction, timber, and sawmill industries. He co-founded with his younger brother Arthur (1863–1929) the company Bunning Bros, the predecessor to the modern-day retailer Bunnings.
The Diggers were a group of religious and political dissidents in England, associated with a political ideology and programme resembling what would later be called agrarian socialism. [1] Gerrard Winstanley and William Everard , amongst many others, were known as True Levellers in 1649, in reference to their split from the Levellers , and later ...
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Winstanley published a pamphlet called The New Law of Righteousness.The basis of this work came from the downtrodden state of the labouring population of England under the encroachment of private property by means of the Enclosures of common land; the remedy it espouses is the communal life, as exposed in the Book of Acts, chapter two, verses 44 and 45: "And all that believed were together ...
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Stafford Parker was a British artist, miner and the only President of the small and short-lived "Diggers Republic" on the diamond fields of southern Africa. Griqualand West and President of the Diggers Republic
The Diggers coined various slogans that became part of the counterculture and even the larger society, such as, "Do your own thing," and "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." [ 2 ] Grogan's 1972 autobiography Ringolevio, a Life Played for Keeps , is regarded by some [ 4 ] as the best and only authentic book written about the ...