This might change some thoughts on the origin of The brits taking control in Australia

[davebirch]

'Used and exploited': These historians want Australians to rethink the convict era

Colonial Australia was a brutal place for convicts, but it was more political than previously thought.

www.abc.net.au

Not as cut and dried as some thought, more of the UK getting rid of political agitators who bucked the system back then.

 

[Drog]

Could have been worse Dave. You could be eating snails, stinking of garlic and beating us at boules every couple of years. Cane toads wouldn't have been a problem though.

How a 'red herring' may have stopped the French from colonising Australia

If it wasn't for a series of events in Britain, France and at sea, Australia could have a very different history.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

'Used and exploited': These historians want Australians to rethink the convict era

Colonial Australia was a brutal place for convicts, but it was more political than previously thought.

www.abc.net.au

Not as cut and dried as some thought, more of the UK getting rid of political agitators who bucked the system back then.

“He specifically cites the Daughters of Rebecca, a group of "cross-dressing breakers of tolls and turnpikes" who were angered at the privatisation and tolling of roads in Wales.”

 

[Drog]

Any of em dressed as a sheep?