Brown’s debut novel, Master of My Fate, gives a fictionalised look into Buchanan’s life, tapping into some uncomfortable truths from Australia’s history that are often overlooked: that much of colonial Australia was built by convict labour; that Australia has its own quiet history of abusing an unpaid workforce; that slavery isn’t that far in the past.
that slavery isn’t that far in the past.
But much, much further back in the past than any of the Socialist regimes the Guardian has favoured over the decades.
Err … who cares?
Its still current. Just officially its illegal in some countries.
also, slavery != convicts
that’s not to condone the use of convict labour, but it’s a very very different moral concept to slavery. The elision is naughty at best
The P-G is right: “slavery” is balls. It’s also balls to refer to indentured labour as slavery.
Why there are so many people who seek to diminish the horrors of slavery by calling other things “slavery” is a problem for psychiatrists, I suppose.
Personally I do condone the use of convict labour if the said convicts are healthy enough to do the work.
If the American colonies hadn’t rebelled, we would have continued to transport our convicts there and Australia would be largely unpopulated. This would have drastically reduced the need for transported slaves.
As usual, the USA is to blame for everything.
I always wondered why they didn’t leave the convicts at the Cape, which was less than halfway to Aus. Was it really the campaigning of Adderly or did they just want them as far away from blighty as physically possible.
As usual, the USA is to blame for everything.
But there would be no Ashes, so my life would be much diminished.
TCW’s Tory leader hustings poll on Twatter
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/tcws-tory-leader-hustings/
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The toppling of Theresa: It’s not over yet
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-toppling-of-theresa-its-not-over-yet/
Yep, my reading of her performance too – angry, all fault of JRM & Farage etc. No inkling that her “deal” was so bad even her revered Europhiles Blair & Campbell said No.
“often overlooked” by Ozzies perhaps, but we Poms tend to remind them of it at every opportunity.
Oz border guard: “any criminal convictions?”
Brit cricket fan: “Oh, I didn’t realise it was still compulsory”
Germans blitz my Brexit vote
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/germans-blitz-my-brexit-vote/
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Warning: Land Whales images
The Maybot trundles on destroying democracy every day.
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“TM says ‘I have failed the country I loved’ – would that be Germany then, in not getting their WA passed?
We must not breathe a sigh of relief and then let our guard down. May’s still there, still the same duplicitous person. What kind of plot will she hatch now, in revenge? She must not be allowed to take any decisions on her own. She must hand over the car keys.
It wouldn’t surprise me if May still tries to sign us up to more EU. She deserves no sympathy, no consideration. We must never forget she was planning our subjugation.”
“”Much of colonial was built ” = no it wasn’t.
Even when I arrived in 1961 the population was about ten million and now is more than double that. So most built by migrants plus.
If no migrants then the aboriginals would have carried on with their happy ways- ask the Greens.