For the British.
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If not the British, then who? The French,The Dutch? Some people need a reality check.
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You mean the reality that Australia was invaded and not discovered.
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Keep telling yourself that? As I said if not the British then who?
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Cats
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Wasn’t so great for all the indigenous who were killed
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If it wasn't the British..it was going to be someone..
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Well, what's your scenario for the most benign course of Indigenous history, given that some Colonial Power would exploit the power vacuum left by a Stone Age people inhabiting the Australian Continent? Who would have done less harm than the British?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia … Saying “aren’t we glad it was the Poms who massacred is not the Belgiums” is, quite frankly, a fucking ridiculous argument
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You still haven't answered the question. Give us your ideal historical scenario for the Colonial occupation of Australia, given that in the era of European colonisation, some nation was going to take possession of this great South land.
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It's very easy
@damethelog to get all indignant about the massacres. However
under Captain Phillip had a settlement run under Enlightenment principles, & massacres were rare & often perpetrators were prosecuted (sadly, not always), a distinct contrast to other Colonial Powers. -
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peacefully relinquished direct rule over Australia leaving us as a modern nation that respects the Rule of Law & stands in distinct contrast to say
,whose former colonies mostly did not fare as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire#Decolonization …
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As an Australian alive in 2018 I agree. Its pretty good here, glad the Poms came here. Some might be glad the Romans went to their countries...
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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100% correct there! British settlement was a fantastic thing, as it created all the blessings we enjoy in Australia today & it should always be celebrated.
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Presbyterian nut and Cory Bernardi fan. Not exactly representative of the population. Unsurprising that you don't care about other people such as indigenous people.
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Another ingrate! So where would you be now without British settlement? You certainly wouldn't be pontificating from Collingwood as a champagne socialist. Most of the population want to enjoy next Friday & will ignore the pointless navel-gazing orchestrated by the idiotic Greens.
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Bullshit. "Most people" or "most people I know in my narrow minded Sydney enclave"? Surely a former councillor should keep up with the news. Most Aussies don't care what day it is and don't even know Jan 26 has anything to do with the First Fleet. http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-18/australia-day-debate-more-than-half-dont-mind-changing-the-date/9337500 …
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So you're not only an ingrate, but you also have poor vocabulary skills. The survey was done by the leftist Australian Institute, so it lacks credibility. However, if people "don't care" like you claim, there is no need to change anything as there is no appetite for change.
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"Vocabulary skills". Hilarious. You could have just said "vocabulary", genius. The majority don't care when it is, so why keep it as a commemoration of genocide? You claim to be a Christian, but you don't seem to be very Christike. Or bright.
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I thought you could handle an extra word, but no doubt your mental energy has been sapped by Twitter doubling its character limit. The 1st Fleet came to establish a penal colony, but your aim is to distort history. There is no appetite for change. I think you mean 'Christlike'.
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Yes, I did mean Christlike. Jesus would forgive such a typo. Why is someone who claims to be a Christian so uncaring for others?
#FauxChristians
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