Michael, You're showing your ignorance again.
>From "Penal Transportation" in Wikipedia - "In 1787, the "First Fleet" departed from England, to found the first colony in Australia, as a penal colony. The arrival at Port Jackson, on 26 January 1788 (now Australia Day) is considered the founding event in the history of Sydney, as well as New South Wales and modern Australia in general. In 1803, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) was also settled as a penal colony, followed by the Moreton Bay Settlement (Queensland) in 1824. The other Australian colonies were "free settlements", as non-convict colonies were known. However, Western Australia adopted transportation in 1851, to resolve a long-standing labour shortage. Until the massive influx of free immigrants during the Australian gold rushes of the 1850s, the settler population was dominated by convicts and their descendants. Transportation from Britain officially ended in 1868 although it had become uncommon several years earlier." By 1900, Australia had no more penal colonies. On Jan 01 1901, Australia was formed from previous penal and non penal colonies. Did you know that the U.S. was a penal colony from 1618 to 1775? >From "Penal colony" in Wikipedia - "The British used North America as a penal colony. Georgia (U.S. state) was originally designed as a penal colony. Convicts would be transported by private companies and sold by auction to plantation owners. About 50,000 British convicts were sent to colonial America. This was about one quarter of British settlers during the 1700's." > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Michael Madigan > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 3:54 PM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: RE: [OT] 25 billion won't do it? > > Let's keep them in Australia, that's still a penal colony, right? > <snip> _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
