“Ironically Britain claimed the whole continent simply in order to claim a few isolated harbours astride trade routes. It was like a speculator who, buying a huge wasteland flanking a highway because it had a few fine sites for road cafes and filling stations, found later that much of the land was fertile and productive.” AustraliaGreat BritainAustralian History Book:The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History Source: The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History
“For eighty years convicts had been shipped to Australia, and a total of 163000 had set out on that voyage from which few returned. In the modern history of Europe there was rarely a planned deportation on a more ambitious scale until the era of Stalin and Hitler.” AustraliaBritish EmpireDeportationAustralian History Book:The Story of Australia’s People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia Source: The Story of Australia’s People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia
