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To: elmatador who wrote (1815)11/3/2005 3:59:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Respond to of 218474
 
ElM, don't believe popular myths. Convicts didn't develop Australia. Google probably has the numbers of convicts shipped to Australia. Compare them with the number of non-convicts. Then check when economic development really took off.

One of my great grandfathers was running the Southern Cross mission ship up and down to the islands back in the 1870s. It was all about virtue. It's interesting to read the children's copy books of the day. Virtue was invented long ago. Massive economic development kicked in only when virtue was epidemic.

Mqurice