History Qualifications?

[Adrian II]

It is crap when you have to study it for a decade. It is also morally indecisive because when you're in primary school it's presented to you as the conquest of a harsh land by heroic settlers, then when you're an adolescent they add the shameful addendum. I.e.

"Oh yeah by the way, we didn't mention it earlier but those heroic settlers you learned about in primary school killed loads of black people and took their land."

I understand what you mean, brother Furious Mental. The glorification of conquest and the suppression of essential elements such as the 'Stain' must be what made 'official' Australian history so tedious, even downright offensive to honest minds. It bored the crap out of brother Hughes as well. Hence his effort to get to the real story, which to my highly limited knowledge he did. What I was trying to say is that there is a real story behind the whitewash, and a herioc tale to boot, considering the limited capacity of humans to do any good at all under similr circumstances. It was after all an involuntary conquest of nature as well as of native lands by a few hundred thousand people, many of whom were murderers, thieves, beggars, orphans, prostitutes, etcetera before they set foot on that shore. In a sense they reclaimed civilisation for themselves. That was their true conquest and that's what makes it a beautiful story. Without romanticising it, because its beauty is in its truth, in the harsh realities that it deals with, rather than the pretty picture into which it was transformed later on.

[ShadesWolf]

Currently doing a history degree

So I dont have much spare time to visit this wonderful place anymore.