Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a formal apology Monday for his country's role in Britain's colonial history. Over the course of three centuries, Britain sent tens of thousands of children ...
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Kristyn Harman’s Cleansing the Colony ­reveals that New Zealand, too, fought this good fight. According to Harman, NZ’s early image of ­itself ‘‘was idealised as a new sort of colony to be populated ...
Modern Australia may have been founded as a penal colony but it quickly emerged as an opportunity to create a better version of the fractious world that had been left behind by free settlers and ...
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