@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
icyfroth wrote: White Australia did not treat it's aboriginal inhabitants kindly, that's for sure, but they didn't treat their white "subjects" (transportees, child labour) any better, that's for double sure.
That is, in fact, blatantly untrue. My husband's first Australian ancestors were all convicts, who went on to become some of the earliest settlers on the Hawkesbury - on land granted to them by the Government. What do you imagine happened to the previous owners of that land?
It is not blatantly untrue. That may be the case for your husband's first Australian ancestors, but it was very different for the ancestors of many other Australians who were given the title of "government men". That's was the snazzy British term for convict slaves.
https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/convict-sydney/day-life-convict
