Goodness, Runner, you must have been so virtuous in those days :)

Joe

'Goodness, Runner, you must have been so virtuous in those days :)'

you are telling the story Joe!

Mr O,

No. My mother was not involved in politics
at all. She was an educator.
A teacher. An academic.

Also -

She was involved in helping both the young and the
elderly in the community. In the choir.
And - Working full time
to pay the bills, plus, educating and raising her family.

She was too busy to worry about politics.

What about you Mr O?

Where are you from and where is your ancestry
from? And were any of you involved in politics
at all?

Your turn to do more than just question others.

Do tell.

Foxy,

Well you have probably guessed by now that I am not Chinese.

My sky blue eyes tell you that I can trace my gene pool back to the prehistoric east Baltic area, maybe even Lithuania. I might even be the long lost cousin you have always wanted.

The first of my Australian ancestors was a free settler from England to NSW in the 1840s. Add some Irish and Danish into the mix during the late 1800s and the rest is history.

That should be enough to whet your appetite.

"Australia was reborn post WWII…".

Funny that; I thought the date was 1901, Federation. I wonder if I could sue the educational institutions I attended. Even the "all" men drinking beer is at odds with history, with 20% of us not touching a drop - probably more those days, with all those fierce temperance ladies, and the ability of wives wanting enough money for food to put boozy husbands under the 'blackfella act'.

I was a 'war baby', born in 1943, a couple of years before the Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. My wife was a baby boomer (1946). While we have appreciated and used the advances in technology and consumer goods during our lives, we reckon that we saw the best of Australia before the end of the 1960s, and Australia started sticking its nose into places like Vietnam. It's all been downhill from there.