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Post by mate on Dec 4, 2008 0:41:30 GMT
New Holland was Australia's original name, before it was changed 
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Post by norsu on Dec 4, 2008 21:52:55 GMT
Oh. Australia is SOOOO much better. New Holland? Seriously. Was Australia discovered by Holland?
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Post by `G.old on Dec 5, 2008 3:26:20 GMT
i beleive (and this may be wrong..i sleep in history class a lot)
australia was where britian and englend sent all their fugatives and 'bad guys'.
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Post by mate on Dec 5, 2008 6:58:32 GMT
The convicts, New Holland was the worlds largest prison in the world. Our ancestors are convicts (well what is left of us true blue aussies!)
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Post by norsu on Dec 21, 2008 22:18:58 GMT
Wow, that is kind of sad! Mate, are you a true blue aussie? LOL
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Post by mate on Dec 22, 2008 9:21:24 GMT
Hell yeah, I am a convict through 'n' through 
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Post by norsu on Dec 22, 2008 23:20:37 GMT
LOL. So, what was your great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandma's great great grandfather's reason for being a convict?
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Post by mate on Dec 23, 2008 0:41:29 GMT
LOL Australia isn't that old only my great great great great great grandfather/mother (early 1700's), but I have no idea, I havn't really cheked my history into that great of detail...
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Post by norsu on Dec 23, 2008 13:22:22 GMT
ancestory.com I hear is pretty good if you are curious, unless you don't feel like paying $14.00 and typing in all your grandparent's personal information. Ugh.
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Post by Reef. on Dec 23, 2008 14:00:51 GMT
apparently i have a great great grandfather in australia, how wierd is that? lol newly discovered last week.... never really looked into the history of Aus to be honest, but would aboriginals be considered the True Blues and descendance of convicts the immigrants?
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Post by mate on Dec 24, 2008 1:33:58 GMT
No for two reasons, one they are not native, the nomads are but they slaughtered all of them. Two if we didn't come along Australia would be a complete desert because they were ruining it. Burning to often causeing the desert to get bigger. True Blues are the people who created Australia to be what it is today. Though some aspects opf Australia are shit because the people lost there way.
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Post by mate on Dec 24, 2008 1:34:48 GMT
yeah I dont want to pay Norsu lol
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Post by Reef. on Dec 24, 2008 16:21:34 GMT
theyre more native than you are! lol i didnt know they were "ruining" australia, why did they burn the land?
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Post by norsu on Dec 24, 2008 18:08:21 GMT
Mmm. Some people have to burn the land for their crops to grow good and stuff, extra nutrients, but who would burn something so much that a desert actually grew?
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Post by mate on Dec 25, 2008 2:10:55 GMT
theyre more native than you are! lol i didnt know they were "ruining" australia, why did they burn the land?
Well i am a quarter aborigonal... They burnt TOO often they burnt off to try and get the plants to grow, instead of letting the ground rejuvenate itself they burnt more off, causing the desert to grow because the plants couldn't come back.. |
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