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Originally Posted by lumberjim
transporting was a punishment just shy of hanging in england in the 1600's. you were exiled to the colonies. against your will. if you survived the voyage, you had 7 years of pseudo slavery to look forward to until you were freed. if you returned to england, and got caught, you got hanged immediately.
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Not entirely, a lot of people saw it as a new chance and stowed away or bribed captains to get travel to Australia.
Also, you will find the majority of convicts had NO desire to return to England once freed. If families were involved, there was much effort put into getting them to our shores...rather than the new Australian trying to get back to the mother land.
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Australians aren't British, they're Australian.
We will be a republic before long, but achieve it peacefully in about the same amount of time it took the yanks to do it violently. (around 200 years from settlement)
Some of you have some grave misconceptions about Australia. I suggest you read your history books.
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The same can be said regarding misconceptions about the US.
I am proud of our (and my) British heritage, its whats started us on the journey to the Country we are today.
Ali, you know I love you, but comments like those, with that tone...are what gets *the Yanks* backs up.
I'm not in favour of us becoming a republic...doesnt seem to have worked out for the majority of countries who have been down that track.
Besides, then we wont be able to totally kick arse in the Commonwealth games.
Oh, and I think Bri is more British than Aussies.