John Smith Ideology

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An opinion piece written by Mr. John Smith, published in the Australian, clearly shows inaccurate and false information and shows clear bias towards the pro-Australian view of its original origins. Mr. John Smith states in his opinion piece that; Australia from its origins prided themselves on and lived in an ‘egalitarian society’. Mr. Smith states that ‘from 1788 to 1850’, during Australia’s early colonial times), ‘Australia at the time enjoyed a society of egalitarian values and beliefs’ ‘Australia right from the start had no real class systems or any special group of people holding supreme power over the nation’, saying Australia had always enjoyed an equality based system ever since the first colonial periods, believing the men and women…show more content…
These statements are clearly not true as expressed in the quote from the book, Fatal shore by Robert Hughes ‘fake-egalitarian cruelty that is still one of the bad dreams of Australian life’. These statements by Mr. Smith show either a clear misunderstanding or clear ignorance of early Australian colonial history. In the early colonial times of Australian history, Australia was used mainly by its mother nation Britain in the late 1780’s to the mid 1850’s as remote foreign prison ‘It was Australia their new vast, lonely possession…. From there convicts would never return’ (Fatal Shore). It was a prison for the convicts, it was to ‘get rid of, or at least greatly reduce, crime in Great Britain’, Australia was home of the convict class of Britain, it was the “bottom” class. The arrival of the New South Wales corps in 1789 (mainly formed with the trouble makers, prison guards, the unwanted and ex-officers of Britain) immediately had the potential to create a power struggle in a society controlled by the decisions of the Governor general representative of the crown in Australia. When Governor General Philip left in 1792 it left, General Grose of the New South Wales corps, in charge of the colony. The New South…show more content…
John Smith’s claims. Mr. Smith states that the Irish convicts of the first Australian colony were ‘treated the same as their British counterparts in other words the British and Irish convicts were seen as equal’ ‘previous conflicts between the Irish and
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