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Flogging parsons

Much like the first convicts, Australians today cower before the great moralisers of the day

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

Convicts chewing on the bread ration served as lunch on their first Christmas Day at Sydney Cove in 1788 would have found the weather the most striking difference from their English homeland. Instead of the wintery landscape of England, the new arrivals were adapting to a burning December sun that beat down on arid bushland and scrub.

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