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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:17:14 EST
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- Subject: Re: Australia Day
- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:59:58 EST from <R3EJD@AKRONVM>
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- >Carolyn, I noticed on the calendar in the lab that Australia Day is
- >tomorrow for 4 states. Please, what can you tell me about it?
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- In the whole period of convict transportation, The Crown shipped
- more than 160,000 men, women and children in bondage to Australia.
- This was the largest forced exile of citizens at the behest of a
- European government in pre-modern history. Nothing in earlier
- penology compares with it. In Australia, England drew the sketch
- for our own century's vaster and more terrible fresco of repression,
- the Gulag. No other country has such a birth, and its pangs may be
- said to have begun on the afternoon of January 26, 1788, when a
- fleet of eleven vessels carrying 1,030 people, including 548 male
- and 188 female convicts, under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip
- in his flagship -Sirius-, entered Port Jackson or, as it would presently
- be called, Sydney Harbor.
-
- --Robert Hughes, -The Fatal Shore-, p. 2
-