Status Updates From Colonial Ambition: Foundati...

"[Wentworth] told the crowd they might inscribe on his tomb, "Here lies the rejected of Sydney" but he assured them, posterity would add another line or two: "Who gave to those who deserted them the liberty of the press, trial by jury, and the constitutional rights of electing their own representatives.""

Someone stop this 60 year old man from having a tantrum at a crowd of protesters omg.

Turns out sheep had great political representation during the colonial period! White women couldn't vote, Aboriginal people were being dispossessed of their land and food sources, but its ok guys cause the sheep and cattle have been well looked after!

'The complications... sank into the Governor like a stone in the pit of his stomach... interminable negotiations in a colony where, in his view, nearly all politicians were disgracefully self-centred and where every matter of public business was conducted upon personal grounds with questions such as "How will it affect me or my property?" and "What profit shall I derive from it?"'

It's called New South Wales, mate