Australia Day Down Underneath.

Convict pioneers were brought to Australia with the same shackles and chains that were used to transport Black African slaves.

In 1786 the British government announced their intention to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay on the east coast of New Holland. New South Wales, whose discovery had been largely overshadowed in the popular imagination by exciting revelations about Tahiti and New Zealand, had been claimed for the Crown by James Cook in 1770. The potential strategic advantages offered by a base in the Pacific—at which ships could reprovision and obtain replacement spars, ropes and canvas—were not enough, however, to induce the British to settle their new territories. An extra inducement was needed, and this came in 1776 with the American War of Independence.

Alexis Nicolas Noel, lithographer (1791–1871) after Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801–1887) Vue de George’s Street à Sydney plate 32 of Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe Atlas historique by Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842) Paris: Tastu, 1833 hand-coloured lithograph; 21 x 31.8 cm Rex Nan Kivell Collection; from the Pictorial Collection (U1741 NK3340)

Penal exile had been a provision of English law since 1597. Convicts transported to the West Indies and America were 'sold' to plantation owners for the duration of their sentence. From 1666 transportation to America became the punishment for theft and pillage in the northern Counties and, in response to the rising urban crime rate thereafter, became the sentence for an ever–increasing range of crimes against property. With the loss of the American colonies in 1776, England had nowhere to send the growing number of felons still being sentenced to transportation. In the erroneous belief that the Americans would soon capitulate, the British government passed the Hulk Act in order to temporarily house transportees.

Nine years later, in 1785, Lord Sydney wrote:

the several Gaols & Places for the Confinement of Felons in this Kingdom are so crowded that the greatest danger is to be apprehended, not only from their Escape, but from infectious Distempers which may hourly be expected to break out amongst them.

To empty the hulks, a new penal settlement would be needed. Lemme Island in the Gambia River and Das Voltas Bay on the south-west coast of Africa were both considered as potential sites. The glowing recommendations of Sir Joseph Banks, the possibility of securing supplies of mast timbers and canvas from Norfolk Island, and the difficulty of escaping from such an isolated site finally recommended New South Wales to the British government.

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25th January 1788 when my ancestor William Nash and his common law wife stood to attention at the ceremony of forced acquisition of the Great South Land for mad King George of England, a few of the half million Aboriginal inhabitants hid behind trees and looked on, not realizing it was all over for "inferior" beings like themselves, who were not considered fully human by the European invaders. ********************************************* Bankstown Australia Day 2009 Celebrations (plenty of toilet paper available for real Australians. The other mugs can dunk themselves in the Georges River.)

Location: Garrison Point, off Beatty Pde, Georges Hall

Begins: 4:00 PM

At the same time a Filipino workman was sacked for washing his behind instead of wiping it with toilet paper. *************************** So, .......Can these girls use a roll?*

From the time they were little girls, their mamas told them "siempre use marami tubig and sapon on your little maganda abut... hindi papel.!"

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The bustard from the bush, known as Dirty Dick Yaramundi gives his considered, intellectual opinion..... "Use toilet paper, ya bloody Flippo!...... If ya ain't got none, use a clump of spinifex or a bunch of gum leaves. Real Aussies don't wipe it at all. What's wrong with a pong? "....This local wag at the Pub with Warm Beer, back of Woop Woop, Queensland." Well, er, ya see mate. We got a duty to decent Australians that all the chinks and flippos are clean you know where. So I propose we examine all refugees and Filipino maids and nannies coming into the Oz at the airport before we let the buggers in. If they don't know how to handle themselves with a roll of dunny paper, then we gotta send 'em back to their own uncivilized country. You got the drift, eh, well? Gawd, I got another fly in me beer! We got rolls of dunny paper in this 'ere pub. I use it mainly to write letters to me sheila and to squash flies. We got a pull the chain job too. You can use it and afterward a lot of fresh water fills it and you can wash your face and 'ands."" ****************************************************************************

Australian Metal Workers Union State organizer Rick Finch with sacked worker Amador Bernabe / No Source

Firm denies man sacked over toilet habits LEONIE JOHNSON January 27th, 2009 TOWNSVILLE Engineering Industries (TEI) has denied their employee was sacked for his toilet habits. TOWNSVILLE Engineering Industries (TEI) has denied their employee was sacked for his toilet habits. Company manager Byron Carter said Amador Bernabe's toilet habits had posed a `serious health risk' to his other employees and he had been counselled a number of times about the issue. The 43-year-old machine operator was working for TEI Bohle on a working visa from the Philippines and used water to clean himself instead of toilet paper. Mr Carter said health and hygiene issues had been raised by other staff members. "The issue concerning Mr Bernabe is not about toilet etiquette, it is about hygiene and the health of other employees," he said. "Mr Bernabe's technique to cleanse himself with water after his toiletry visits leaves the toilet cubical splashed with water suspected to be contaminated with faeces and wet soggy toilet paper lying on the floor. "Other employees complain about the mess and the possible spread of disease and will not use the cubicles until they are cleaned and disinfected." Australian Manufacturing Worker's Union state organiser Rick Finch said Mr Bernabe was sacked for not going to the toilet the Australian way. Mr Carter denied Mr Bernabe was sacked. "Mr Bernabe was given the opportunity to clean up his toiletry habits or he would be terminated. He was told the choice was his," he said. "After a heated discussion with the workshop foreman, Mr Bernabe left his place of work without notice and has not been back to work." Mr Carter said the problem was an ongoing issue. "Contrary to Mr Bernabe's statement that he had no problems until yesterday (Friday), he had been counselled a number of times about his toiletry habits," he said. "On one occasion he was instructed to clean out the mess he made in the toilet cubicle as it was not acceptable to leave it in such a state. On a number of occasions Mr Bernabe was urged to carry out his toiletry functions in the Australian way in order to prevent contamination of the toilet cubicle and upsetting other users of the facilities. "The continuation of Mr Bernabe's toiletry habits poses an unnecessary health risk to other employees and cannot be accepted."