Arjay "The Viking and the Romans invaded Britain but now a new culture exists,so will it be here with hundreds of nationalities coming here on a yearly basis."

I never thought of it that way before Arjay, but I can see you are correct.
I would like to think we will continue on with a culture roughly like the one we have today, given that Australia has been a successful multicultural country for over 200 years now.

We are certainly the lucky country.

I am a Australian of European bloodlines and in no way feel as if we should apologise for what the British did over 200 years ago.For one thing if they hadn't colonised the continent then we would now be all speaking French as they had designs on New Holland as it was known then for themselves.As for the Aborigines they were a nomadic race who never established cities or towns or any real civilisation as we in the West recognise.The modern PC world and multiculturalism is an invention of the so called social left and the adgenda put forward by liberals and bleeding hearts who believe that we should all live together in harmony and get along.You only need to look at countries like the USA,the problems they are having in many European countries right now to see this abhorrent policy does not work.In Australia like many other Western nations this has been forced upon us by the limpwristed so called leaders without any say at all in a so called democracy to what we really would like.Most people I know agree that there are far to many foreigners here and we are being overrun.However they are a to apathetic and worried about there own lives to really rebel against it.This exactly what these bleeding hearts and lefties want for the silent majority to stay silent and allow the vocal minority to have there views and beliefs put forward as what the average Australian thinks and believes when in reality it couldn't be further from the truth.We need to wake up before it is to late if it isn't already.

On this the Australia Day of even non-Aboriginal Australians I to can make the claim that I have Convicts in My Family.

Few can make this proud claim. My Convicts are:

- Aunty Shaggher still doing time for GBH (glassing in a Kings Cross strip club). Yes she's a stripper and pro and I'm proud of it. And

- my cousin Cody is in Goulburn Supermum for paedophilia and murder.

There you have it. Nya! Nya!

Anyone got better convicts?

Hi Pete,

Yeah, I can top that: [curse you, Ancestry.com ! ] I had a gr-gr-gr-grandfather, John Stanton, who got pinged for theft in 1789, came out in the Third Fleet on the 'Active', did his time, went back to England and got pinged again for theft, sentenced to death, reprieved, came out here again, did his time, and married another convict, Frances Hoggard, who had been brought out here in 1797 for theft [she was later tried for pinching a blanket in Parramatta]. Their daughter Jane (b. 1810) married another convict, Thomas Plows, had seventeen children and died in childbirth at 37.

A couple of other ancestors actually came out on the same ship, the 'Admiral Gambier'. One married the daughter of a female convict, but when she died he married the daughter of another convict. There were two or three others - all thieves, nothing serious, there were a lot of loaves of bread in Britain at the time - but I don't want to brag. Actually, from the court cases, they all seemed to pinch a hell of a lot more than the odd loaf of bread. I suspect one pinched a flock of sheep, and another a bolt of very expensive cloth - she was pinged trying to sell it up the same street. Not too bright. It figures: the apple doesn't roll far from the tree.

Joe

Hi Joe

Yes, well. You have some very old British convicts in your family, I'll give you that. But theft is way down on the convict pecking order. Unbecoming.

Mine are a superior class of convict: current, Aussie through and through and Hey! they revel in ultra-violence

(a la Clockwork Orange https://youtu.be/oWLByMshYIU )

Thankyou for your convict audition and interest :)

Next!!

The British needed cheap labour to develop the colonies. I have convict ancestry on both sides going back to 1798 and 1820.On my father's side James was arrested in England at the age of 12 for grand theft and larceny for stealing a handkerchief and a rein of silk.He and his accomplice of 9, were jailed for several years before being sent to Australia as slaves.