Did anyone watch the documentary -
"The Royal House of Windsor:
Season 1. Episode 1, Adapt or Die"
on SBS last night?

It was well worth watching and revealed
"fresh insight into how George V rescued
the monarchy by dumping his family's German
roots and explains the Edward VIII abdication
crisis."

It shows what strong survivors the royals are.
Unfortunately it all comes at a price as
their Russian cousins - Tsar Nicholas and
his family tragically learned the hard way.

The hard yakka was already done when large scale immigration began after WW2. I am old enough to have experienced the first arrivals of people, needed at the time, to keep things going, not to change the culture of the country. Most were good people, happy to escape from the ruins of their own countries. It is the first generation offspring of non-British immigrants who decided to carry a chip around on their shoulders, not unlike the offspring of the first Muslim immigrants to the West, too stupid to know what their parents left behind.

Australia seems to be getting a better deal these days from Asians who have had experience of British culture in the sub-Continent and other British ex-colonies.

The story of my parents and many other "displaced
people" who came to this country after WWII was
not the benign kind of migration story in which
people looked to better their situation by moving
to a foreign land. It was a desperate kind, in which
refugees whose lives had been overturned by war take
a leap into the unknown because some distant country
offers them a visa. They dreamed that a war of
liberation would overthrow the Soviet Regime from
which they had fled and thought that they would
be returning home shortly.

Of course that did not happen and they learned to adjust.
Their children did not have "chips on their shoulders,"
and actually settled in rather well. Libraries are
full of the cold war history of migration to Australia
if one is inclined to read and learn about the contributions
these people made and are still making to this country.

The "contributions" made by immigrants are no more worthy of comment than are the efforts of Australians who have been here for generations.

They are all plainly pathetic when compared with what the original British settlers did to pave the way for all of us.

There is no reasoning with people who have abandoned the virtue of reasoning for emotivism.

Ben Pobjie writes in his book - "Error Australis: The
Reality Recap of Australian History," :

"Australia has come a long way these past 200-odd years.
From its humble beginnings as an obscure case of
colonial land-theft, it has become a thriving, wealthy
and only moderately evil modern nation."

"Who would have thought, when the unhappy denizens of the
First Fleet were huddled, starving and desperate on the
shores of Port Jackson, that one day Australia would grow
so powerful and confident on the world stage ..."

"Whatever happens to Australia the country, we can be sure
of one thing: Australia's history, rich and colourful
and filled with heroism and drama will live on into
infinity."

And for that we can thank the hard working historical
recappers like Ben Pobjie who work themselves into the
ground to keep the flame of history alive for future
generations.

Ben asks:

"How can we know where we are going, if we don't know where
we have been? Hope for the future must always be based
on respect for the past, and in recapping the history of
Australia, we hope passionately that
we may learn something about ourselves. Usually we don't..."
but still, as Ben tells us - "It's a great way to pass
the time.

I'm not going to be lured into responding to your twaddle, Foxy. I told you that I was going to leave you alone, and I meant it. If you need to continue coming up with the second-hand ravings of your favourite Marxists that’s your problem not mine. I have written a short review of an article written by a third party. That's all. I'm interested in what people think about the article, naturally, but I am not interested in the same person belting out propaganda all the time.