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2024-03-16 16:12:59 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
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The post implies that Australia was founded by people fleeing Britain. Australia, however, was a penal colony where British prisoners were sent. What ensued was genocide of the native people. Nobody was “fleeing” Britain. https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/Convicts_and_the_Colonisation_of_Australia,_1788-1868 https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20120126-travelwise-australias-penal-colony-roots
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