[luv-talk] History lesson

On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 17:26 +1100, Roger wrote:

History is now history of Asia and aborigines, not history of Australia.

That is appropriate. Remember that all the "First Fleet" people, convicts and authorities, were "boat people" invading an already settled and occupied land, just not a European settlement. Except for those of "Aboriginal" ancestry, we are all either boat people or immigrants, or the descendants of such. Australia is geographically part of Asia, not Europe. A knowledge of the "local" history is a good thing, although I would also strongly recommend a breadth of global history as a good background. Mark Trickett