Matthew Flinders - found

[Harry Nicholson]

The grave of Flinders, uncovered:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...nders&ns_fee=0

[Bill Morrison]

Even the dead aren't save from the so call developers. In past times they were called grave robbers!

[happy daze john in oz]

Big news here today in Oz even better as it is Australia day.

A day for all to enjoy, a day for handing out gongs and boy do we hand them out.
Australians of the year are the two divers who got the young lads out of the caves in Thailand, well deserved.

But then we go and give one to Kylie Minouge, and a few other sqwaukers along with a bunch of two bit so called sports persons and radio and TV presenters.

Want a gong, just add you name to the list, over 1500 given out.

So back to the BBQ, cold stubbies and back yard cricket.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Flinders was hero in his time. Melbourne has apparently
a street and railway station named after him. Also had a
cat named Tim.

K.

[Doc Vernon]

Happy Australia Day to all in Aussieland
And struth is it hot ! Typical Aussie BBQ Weather throw a few snags on the Barbie mates and down a few Schooners as well.
Went through to the City by Train Today and there wasn't a damn breeze,not a breath of wind,stifling hot but all the Aussies were out and about doing their thing on their day!
Music in the Steets,Ferry Races,and all the rest,Tonight is a believe another big Fireworks on the Harbour Bridge ,gee these Aussies sure do like their Fireworks! And why not , Its bloody amazing the whole lot!
Enjoy
Cheers


https://www.ksl.com/article/46475559...day-in-5-years

[Keith at Tregenna]

Today is Australia Day (also referred to as Invasion Day by indigenous Australians).

On this day 1788, Mary Watkins, a 20 year old from the Vale of Glamorgan, along with four Welshmen men and two other women from Wales, were passengers of the six convict ships that had docked in Port Jackson (now known as Sydney) and a deputation had been sent ashore to establish the first permanent European colony on the Australian continent.
Mary's adventure had begun after being sentenced to seven years transportation overseas for stealing sixpence worth of clothing. She was boarded onto the "Friendship" in Portsmouth and the fleet set sail on 13 May 1787. Conditions on board were harsh and food soon ran short, as officials organising the trip had underestimated what was needed for the 8-month voyage.
Mary went ashore with the other women on the 6th February and set up camp. However, that night soon descending into chaos, as there was a violent storm that flattened many of their tents and the men broke into the women's quarters. Order was restored the following morning and the convicts put to work, building houses and clearing land, but life remained hard. Crop failures, drought and bushfires were common and food became short when the cattle they had brought with them were lost in the bush.
To alleviate the food shortage, some of the party, including Mary, were sent to Norfolk Island, where she and her partner, Issac Tarr, converted 3/4 acre of bushland into farmland and bought a sow, which produced litters and thus a supply of fresh meat. The last record of Mary is in 1794 after she had returned to the mainland with Issac.
It was the discovery of copper and gold in the early 1850s which caused the provinces Welsh population to increase sharply. The census of 1851 indicates that there were about 1,800 Welsh-born settlers in Australia and by 1871, there were almost 7,000 in Victoria alone, which increased to 12,000 by the turn of the century. However, not all settlers came to find work in the mines. Joseph Jenkins, from Cardiganshire, fled from a nagging wife in 1868 at the age of 51. Later he became an infamous swagman in rural Victoria. It was the chapel and the Welsh language which provided a sense of cohesion and identity to the emerging Welsh communities at this time. In Victoria, the chapel leaders organised Cymanfa Ganu and the first Welsh-Australian Eisteddfod in 1863.

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The History of Wales

[robpage]

The BBC World Service was reporting this morning that the indigenous Australian people were rallying against Australia Day on the grounds that they'd been there 3 or 4000 years and it's only the last couple of hundred years since the Europeans came that they've had a real demise this seems to happen throughout the world everything's good if the Europeans didn't interfere with it I think there is a point where we have to say the past is the past if mistakes are made that's just tough

[Keith at Tregenna]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

K.

[robpage]

[I]progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy bis perpetual.Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

George Santayana Spanish philosopher 1863 to 1952

[Keith at Tregenna]

[I]progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy bis perpetual.Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

George Santayana Spanish philosopher 1863 to 1952

"Only the dead have seen the end of war"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana

In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Churchill slightly changed the quote when he said (paraphrased), “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”

We must always look forward, but we have to understand our history in order to not repeat the mistakes of the past. I have seen too many instances where people continue to pursue wrong courses of action because they do not take the time to think critically about what has happened in the past.

“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Sir Winston Churchill