Published: December 08, 2019
Governments increasingly make laws to curtail rights of protest, assembly, property and privacy and we need to suspect and resist that
Any shame white Australians might have felt about the country’s origins as a penal colony has long since disappeared.
For many decades those with convict ancestors have tended to proudly claim them. By the time of my primary education in the 1980s, the crimes of those transported tended to be minimised by teachers. Almost all, the comforting story ran, had stolen loaves of bread.
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