NahnCee

AUSTRALIA – Come Visit!

No way do we “tug the forelock” NO WAY!!

- “rejected convicts”? The vast majority young and chosen for the skills they could bring to the establishment of the colony.

- Aborigines “treated with the same sort of disdain and disgust”? Maybe you are reading this in the “Black Arm Band” Histories written post 1960 but this is just part of the Victim Politics that we are coming out of. It is a phase. Earlier histories also record respect and admiration. As do personal diaries and newspapers.

The Enlightenment and the 200 years between the founding of the US and that of Australia make it difficult to draw parallels.

W. thank you for the Kilcullen link, and for the insight into the US Bill of Rights and what is being proposed in Australia. For some (many) the idea that we are going to be “given” these rights (by the courts) is a little galling.

Love the idea of reading a US blog to learn about the Australian bill of Rights. Thank you to all.