Booney wrote:dedja wrote:Nothing wrong with it all ... except it would the highlight that British were illegal immigrant boat people. Oh, hang on ...
Not me. Welsh heritage, 3rd generation Australian. Done nothing wrong.
I'm quite comfortable with recognition of their being other peoples here before white settlement in 1788.
However, I feel no responsibility for any ill-treatment of our predecessors here, being barely "Australian" myself - except by birth.
My mother landed here in 1923 from Yorkshire, and my father's folks came from Cornwall in the 1890s and trace back before that to Scotland.
So, my family had no involvement in anything that happened here prior to that...
(However, there are Viking ancestors on both sides of the family and they may have done a few bad things to others back in Europe a few centuries earlier.)