Horza’s Reviews > Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy > Status Update

'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