HSTY1089 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lachlan Macquarie, Lisa Lopes, Windradyne
19 Aug 2018
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Convict numbers in london were rising and there was a strategic need to send convicts away from the capital - this is the orthodox view of historians for the settlement of new south wales (nsw). The revisionist view is that imperial competition (particularly with france) led to the need for the establishment of a new colony in the region of australia. This myth of vacancy remains very powerful throughout australian history but also that the nation was born modern and conquered the continent with this right and power behind the state. After the american and french revolutions there is an imagined sense of republican destiny amongst the new colonists but even to this day that is not yet come to force. The idea of the society being founded by thieves was pushed into the british imagination and has since remained, largely.
