Joe Dolce: Distinguished Transported
Distinguished Transported
Daniel Connor.
Seven years for sheep stealing. One of largest landowners in central Perth.
Jørgen Jørgensen.
Eccentric Danish adventurer, declared himself ruler of Iceland, later became a spy in Britain.
John Davies.
Founded The Mercury newspaper.
William Henry Groom.
Politician, member of inaugural Australian Parliament.
Laurence Hynes Halloran.
Founder of Sydney Grammar School.
Francis “Frank the Poet” McNamara.
Composer of convict ballads, including The Convict’s Tour to Hell.
William Chopin.
Chemist at the Colonial Hospital. Later convicted as abortionist.
Isaac Nichols.
Australia’s first Postmaster.
James Squire.
Australia’s first brewer.
James Hardy Vaux.
Author of Australia’s first full-length autobiography and dictionary.
Mary Wade.
Youngest female convict (11 years of age), 21 children.
At the time of her death, over 300 living descendants.
John “Red” Kelly.
Father of Ned Kelly.
Joe Dolce
It seems the cardinal virtue in the modern Christianity is no longer charity, nor even faith and hope, but an inoffensive prudence
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4 mins
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
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To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
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