Australia Day

IFocus said:

I don't really care what day we celebrate Australia on but it does matter to some.

As for Jan 26 why some want to die in a ditch for it shows a complete lack of knowledge on Australia's history it has no relevance other than the English establishing a penal colony on New Holland after being booted out on the US.

Australia came about over 100 years later.

I wont be emigrating any where ( 5th gen WA grand kids will be 7th gen ) but if the groveling conservative monarchists that want to support the Jan 26 then its actually real Australians that will object, you deal with it along with the other blow ins.

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wayneL said:

Were your lot the criminals or the jailers?

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IFocus said:

Irish hence my disgust

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IFocus said:

I don't really care what day we celebrate Australia on but it does matter to some.

As for Jan 26 why some want to die in a ditch for it shows a complete lack of knowledge on Australia's history it has no relevance other than the English establishing a penal colony on New Holland after being booted out on the US.

Australia came about over 100 years later.

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IFocus said:

Irish hence my disgust

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sptrawler said:

Southern Irish, or Northern Irish?

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sptrawler said:

Southern Irish, or Northern Irish?

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IFocus said:

Enlisted into the British Army from Dublin served out his time and on retirement served as a Pensioner guard on one of the convict ships for free passage for him, wife and kids, discharged soon after arrival.

Life would not have been easy for an Irishman often wondered if they chose "Church of England" to try and fit in.

In a further twist my DNA is 67% Scottish 13% Irish.

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IFocus said:

Enlisted into the British Army from Dublin served out his time and on retirement served as a Pensioner guard on one of the convict ships for free passage for him, wife and kids, discharged soon after arrival.

Life would not have been easy for an Irishman often wondered if they chose "Church of England" to try and fit in.

In a further twist my DNA is 67% Scottish 13% Irish.

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sptrawler said:

Could explain your confusion on belonging and reluctance to charity, with an underlying anger issue.

Apparently Church of England is a religion you have, when you don't have a religion, just in case there is an afterlife.

It must have been a hell of a shock for him and his family coming out from the U.K back then, but people like them made Australia the great country it is today.
If he had stayed over in Ireland, you wouldn't be having the life you have, living the dream.

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IFocus said:

Probably joined to avoid famine etc I think he would have known hardship.

He served overseas and pensioned of in Malta I believe before the convict ship to WA.

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sptrawler said:

Seriously tough people, the hardship they would have endured in a climate and environment completely foreign, doesn't bear thinking about.

I bet they wished there was a Coles, Woolies, Bunnings and a Dan Murphy's back then.

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wayneL said:

Word has it that Dan Murphy had an illegal still back then

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sptrawler said:

Seriously tough people, the hardship they would have endured in a climate and environment completely foreign, doesn't bear thinking about.

I bet they wished there was a Coles, Woolies, Bunnings and a Dan Murphy's back then.

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