I Googled My Mother’s Maiden Name and Found My Family’s Violent Secret

Re:I Googled My Mother’s Maiden Name and Found My Family’s V... by xasos on Saturday April 11, 2015 @01:23AM (#9358612)

It's a common thing to say that we Australians are descendants of criminals (Australia was originally populated by British prisoners). It's interesting to see that it is now one of the friendliest countries in the world, coming from a country filled with criminals 200 years ago.

In the end, we have all descended from a criminal in one form or the other :)

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Re:I Googled My Mother’s Maiden Name and Found My Family’s V... by nailer on Saturday April 11, 2015 @08:11AM (#9359214)

We shouldn't let them get away with it though: it's still as ignorant of history as saying Americans are descended from puritans.

There was no Melbourne (4.5M people) prison - John Batman sailed up a river, decided 'it was a good place for a city'. There's been waves of farmers, waves of gold miners, waves of British and mediterranean emigrees and waves of refugees.

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