Adam F. Lawton on Nostr: "For the colonisers, the land was there to be taken for their survival regardless of ...
"For the colonisers, the land was there to be taken for their survival regardless of the natives' welfare. Worse still, in many cases the Aborigines were as much of a pest to them as the wildlife that competed with the settlers' animals and were accordingly exterminated whenever they encroached upon their newly hustled domain. In short, the convicts' thieving for which they were convicted and deported was now legitimate enterprise and lauded by their overlords."
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