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Her grandfather immigrated from Scotland (Lennox clan), so no (potato famine) "convicts" in the family tree. I know about the "lost generations", subjegating the aboriginals, the WW-II kidlets, and those horrid orphanages, etc.
What I mean by "forged in blood" is throwing King George out on his arse during the revolutionary war, while Australia still has their election of the PM "approved" by the queen. Given Aussie history at the hands of the British (like Galipoli) I'm often dismayed that there's still plenty of "royalists" in Australia (mostly the elderly, my mother in law among them).
A dingo ate my boob.
I find it very entertaining when non Americans lecture us on firearms, particularly Australia which only because of us ...and the 14th Army, the RAF and the RN Fleet Air Arm, too....is not speaking Japanese now.
Australia is a smallish country.
From the books I read the first generation colonists that fought in the revolutionary war lost most of the battles to the English. And your less free now than you were then.
Considering poor old george was opposed to slavery, and actually gave away his own money to the poor in his constituency, and opposed war with the colonies he wasn't half bad as far as evil tyrants go. But then despised men do not get to write their own history.
Galipoli was a rotten mess for sure, but it pales in comparison to what your poor boys susufferein WWII at the hands of your own friendly fire. Its all swings and roundabouts in the end.
Personally, I think we should stop comparing ourselves to other countries and ignore what they have to think about us.
It an apples to coconuts debate...
Only in population terms.
In physical size it's right up here with a tad under 3 million square miles, most of it empty.
Australian's...............
They just smile and give you a vegemite sandwich.
We really don't get what an Armageddon WWI was for the commonwealth. It scared them and changed them profoundly.
Let's get real....automation and innovation did more to end slavery than kings or politicians. Just like it will end most minimum wage jobs in the fast food industry, like robots making cars, like it did in the grain harvest...etc.
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No offense, but since slavery was outlawed here, not replaced, is it possible that the economic rules that you reference might not apply in the same way in this instance?Simple economics doesn't allow an industry to change without a viable replacement....you can't end the use of one form of production without it's replacement already known and proven functional, being an improvement in efficiency, and cost effective.
The idea that slavery ended and that caused the invention of it's replacement to happen is ludicrous.
As far as buying families in Africa for $100...if that's really the case, get all your friends together and buy as many as you can, then set them free... it's cheaper than what UNICEF says it takes to feed them.
Simple economics doesn't allow an industry to change without a viable replacement....you can't end the use of one form of production without it's replacement already known and proven functional, being an improvement in efficiency, and cost effective.
The idea that slavery ended and that caused the invention of it's replacement to happen is ludicrous.
As far as buying families in Africa for $100...if that's really the case, get all your friends together and buy as many as you can, then set them free... it's cheaper than what UNICEF says it takes to feed them.
Our country was forged in blood, theirs was not. It's a cultural mindset difference but when logical facts and arguments are presented, more often than not they'll go from a "why does anyone think thy need a gun?", to "yeah, I never thought about that!"
If I remember right. The white people of Australia were put there by the English. The English used Australia as a penal colony during the 15th, 16th , 17th centuries. If you were a bad guy, you got exiled to Australia.