Well he proved his assertions didn't he?
Added very creatively to the list of things he just didn't do.
This included not being a very good Premier but managing to be a very, very bad Foreign Minister.
Well he proved his assertions didn't he?
Added very creatively to the list of things he just didn't do.
This included not being a very good Premier but managing to be a very, very bad Foreign Minister.
There's *another* active shooter situation in the US. Local residents are being advised to pray.
Here's a pic of a religious leader showing how much he trusts in prayer as regards shooters.
Yes we do agree here.
I think that your most important comments are regarding the English wool and textiles because this shows how global the situation had become.
Blainey is an historian who relies on having his own set of facts and a very large cherry picker.
@liamvhogan I still think that 'slavery was not the economic success it was in the US' is a better description than 'forced labour was ....etc'.
This is not just semantics.
It wasn't just unfortunate Melanesians.
What would you call the Wave Hill workers (men and women) who went on strike?
What about the thousands of stolen children who were sent to work for the wealthy as a part of a system they really had little notion of.
Let's call it what it is.
Australia is a collonialist, racist society based on slavery.
I don't think that hair-splitting definitions are helpful at all.
Anyone who hasn't read about Robert Towns, who modestly named the City of Townsville after himself, perhaps should:
Calling "Blackbirding" anything other than slavery is whitewashing.
Rum was not important. Money was.