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ECONOMY 58% Percentage of Americans who say their income is falling behind the rising cost of living, compared with 44% who said the same six months ago 13% Percentage who cite housing as the biggest economic problem
While in Britain the poor starved, the colonists of Van Diemen's Land enjoyed plenty - kangaroo, oysters, wombat, echidna "stuffed with sage and onion." There was no money for prisons, so many convicts "simply wandered off to live a life of quiet freedom in the well-watered, game-rich bush...
The fate of the island's Aborigines has been fiercely debated. Historian Keith Windschuttle claimed in 2002 that violence toward them had been greatly exaggerated. But based on contemporary accounts and his research on the hunting skills of convicts, Boyce argues that the mass killing of Aborigines was probably more...
Boyce's account of the Aborigines' doom in an appendix deserves a separate book. His chief focus remains a vivid recreation of the lives of the convicts who adapted so creatively to the Australian landscape. Though they, and not the free settlers who arrived later, were the founders of Tasmania...
Your cover reads "Australia Says Sorry." Australia did not say sorry - its government and Parliament did. There are more than 14 million people - migrants from many countries and their children - whose families were not even living in Australia when the events being apologized for took place. Why should they say...