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How did early colonial Australia deal with its gender imbalance?
Australia was a penal colony, so since there are more male criminals than female, it stands to reason that Australia would have a large gender imbalance with more men than women. Indeed, Wikipedia's ...
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When did the accusations of convict stain against white Australians stop being culturally significant?
"White Australians" in the 19th and early 20th century were generally subject to a cultural belief of genetic criminality from other British settler societies, this varied from cultural claims to ...
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Why did Canada, Australia and New Zealand separate from the UK?
I asked this question in various places on the Web. I haven't received a clear answer.
The USA separated from the UK because the people felt that they were not British, and they weren't.
Weren't ...