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=> Convict Origins
The one thing that everyone knew about Australia was that it was founded with convicts, which continues to make it morally suspect. When the crowd at the Sydney Cricket Ground invaded the pitch in 1879, an Englishmen at the crease called out, 'You sons of convicts!'. In 1942 Winston Churchill was tired of John Curtin's requests about the need for British reinforcements for Australia and blamed this panic on 'bad stock'.
For over a century Australians upheld a taboo of not mentioning the convicts. This covered shame; it did not remove it. My exploration here of the consequences of this repression is necessarily speculative, but there is no doubt about how raw this wound was. In 1899 a well-intention governor of New South Wales, en route to take his post, sent his message ahead: 'Greetings; your birth stain have you turned to good'. There was an uproar and the governor had to retreat from such an offensive remark.
In the late nineteenth century the image of Australia in verse and picture was of a young virginal girl, absolutely pure. I think this stress on purity was Australia response to the impure origin of the nation. Thereafter, the slogan of 'White Australia' carried all the hopes for the young nation: pure. progressive, enlightened.
Other nations excluded Asian immigrants but not under a slogan of the Australia type - a 'White New Zealand' or a 'White Canada' did not become the panopy of nationhood. Racial purity was more desperately sought and proclaimed in Australia. Increasingly around the world purity of race mattered, and on that test Australia could rate high: Australians boasted that they were ninety-eight per cent British, free of the mixture of other races. The insistence on this, the boastfulness about it, was the way to show the world that the convict stain had been washed away-except, of course, that in racial thought blood went on counting, so in hitching Australia's destiny to a purity of race, the Australians did not escape their origins, as Churchill's jibe about bad blood showed.
Sources :
'Australian History in 7 Questions', John Hirst, 2014, Black Inc. Publisher
'When the crowd...'; Sydney Morning Herald, 10 February 1879.
'In 1942, Winston Churchill...'; Graham Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia, Macmillan, Sydney, 2008.
'In 1899 a well-intention...'; Sydney Morning Herald,11 May 1899.
Hetalia belongs to Himaruya Hidekaz.
Makassar is the name of a city in Indonesia.
Indonesia aph, Malaysia aph & Portugal aph based on Himaruya's sketch.
Previous page :dinosaurusgede.deviantart.com/…
=> Convict Origins
The one thing that everyone knew about Australia was that it was founded with convicts, which continues to make it morally suspect. When the crowd at the Sydney Cricket Ground invaded the pitch in 1879, an Englishmen at the crease called out, 'You sons of convicts!'. In 1942 Winston Churchill was tired of John Curtin's requests about the need for British reinforcements for Australia and blamed this panic on 'bad stock'.
For over a century Australians upheld a taboo of not mentioning the convicts. This covered shame; it did not remove it. My exploration here of the consequences of this repression is necessarily speculative, but there is no doubt about how raw this wound was. In 1899 a well-intention governor of New South Wales, en route to take his post, sent his message ahead: 'Greetings; your birth stain have you turned to good'. There was an uproar and the governor had to retreat from such an offensive remark.
In the late nineteenth century the image of Australia in verse and picture was of a young virginal girl, absolutely pure. I think this stress on purity was Australia response to the impure origin of the nation. Thereafter, the slogan of 'White Australia' carried all the hopes for the young nation: pure. progressive, enlightened.
Other nations excluded Asian immigrants but not under a slogan of the Australia type - a 'White New Zealand' or a 'White Canada' did not become the panopy of nationhood. Racial purity was more desperately sought and proclaimed in Australia. Increasingly around the world purity of race mattered, and on that test Australia could rate high: Australians boasted that they were ninety-eight per cent British, free of the mixture of other races. The insistence on this, the boastfulness about it, was the way to show the world that the convict stain had been washed away-except, of course, that in racial thought blood went on counting, so in hitching Australia's destiny to a purity of race, the Australians did not escape their origins, as Churchill's jibe about bad blood showed.
Sources :
'Australian History in 7 Questions', John Hirst, 2014, Black Inc. Publisher
'When the crowd...'; Sydney Morning Herald, 10 February 1879.
'In 1942, Winston Churchill...'; Graham Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia, Macmillan, Sydney, 2008.
'In 1899 a well-intention...'; Sydney Morning Herald,11 May 1899.
Hetalia belongs to Himaruya Hidekaz.
Makassar is the name of a city in Indonesia.
Indonesia aph, Malaysia aph & Portugal aph based on Himaruya's sketch.
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