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Irish convict transportation to Australia

Irish convict transportation to Australia

Tweetby Australian historian Brad Webb In the early nineteenth century, Britain embarked on a social engineering scheme that saw Australia become the first colony to build a society on the labour of convicted felons. With growing poverty and...

26 October, 2010 4:17 pm / no comments

 

Where is Australia’s Treaty of Waitangi?

Where is Australia’s Treaty of Waitangi?

Tweet Australia has never had an equivalent of New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, says Brad Webb. Here, aboriginal dispossession equated to British sovereignty. NEW ZEALAND’S founding document, the Treaty of...

30 September, 2010 8:59 am / 3 comments

 
 

 
 

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