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Colonial Oz

Post by Trolldor » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:26 am

Dorothy's red slippers don't really fit in to the picture... who here knows anything about the great Hunk of death that I call home during the Colonial years?
I've just started a Uni course, but unfortunately you don't learn much, I also figured this would be a good place to post what I have learnt. It lets me revise and maybe gives a history not many people know (or care) about.
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Post by Geoff » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:41 am

In the beginning we dumped all our convicts... :mrgreen:
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Post by Trolldor » Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:17 pm

Under the assumption we were a green, fertile land perfect for farming.


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Re: Colonial Oz

Post by Pappa » Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:30 pm

Geoff wrote:In the beginning we dumped all our convicts... :mrgreen:
And there I was holding off the urge to make some remark about murderers and rapists. :lol:
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Re: Colonial Oz

Post by Cormac » Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:49 pm

Geoff wrote:In the beginning we dumped all our convicts... :mrgreen:
And poor unfortunates transported for taking some food, when their families were starving...
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Re: Colonial Oz

Post by Geoff » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:48 pm

Cormac wrote:
Geoff wrote:In the beginning we dumped all our convicts... :mrgreen:
And poor unfortunates transported for taking some food, when their families were starving...
but they were all Irish so that was OK...

(Hi Cormac! Shall I start singing "Fields of Athenrye", or will you?) ;)
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Re: Colonial Oz

Post by Cormac » Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:53 am

Geoff wrote:
Cormac wrote:
Geoff wrote:In the beginning we dumped all our convicts... :mrgreen:
And poor unfortunates transported for taking some food, when their families were starving...
but they were all Irish so that was OK...

(Hi Cormac! Shall I start singing "Fields of Athenrye", or will you?) ;)
Believe it or not, I live near Athenry...

I don't need to sing it, I only have to look out my back window!
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Re: Colonial Oz

Post by Geoff » Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:06 pm

Cormac wrote:
Geoff wrote:
Cormac wrote:
Geoff wrote:In the beginning we dumped all our convicts... :mrgreen:
And poor unfortunates transported for taking some food, when their families were starving...
but they were all Irish so that was OK...

(Hi Cormac! Shall I start singing "Fields of Athenrye", or will you?) ;)
Believe it or not, I live near Athenry...

I don't need to sing it, I only have to look out my back window!
I passed it on the train from Dublin to Galway once, years ago. Most people I know hate that song, so I play it a lot just to annoy them! ;) I love Ireland (despite some of my piss-taking), especially the West Coast. "Song for Ireland" is another of my favourites.

I think it's about time we had an Irish ratz meet! :cheers:
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Re: Colonial Oz

Post by charlou » Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:33 am

If you haven't already read them, I highly recommend two books, baa: A Fortunate Life, an autobiography by A B Facey, and The Fatal Shore, an historical novel by Robert Hughes.
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Re: Colonial Oz

Post by zeppelin » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:50 pm

I've just read The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the founding of Australia by Thomas Kenealy which is far more interesting than his The Great Shame which should have been called The Great Pity 'cos it bored the pants off me.
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Re: Colonial Oz

Post by Trolldor » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:05 am

Charlou wrote:If you haven't already read them, I highly recommend two books, baa: A Fortunate Life, an autobiography by A B Facey, and The Fatal Shore, an historical novel by Robert Hughes.

:tup:

Thanks.

(For some reason didn't show up on my ego search even though a new post had been made, lame!)
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Re: Colonial Oz

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