Turns out that’s not so easy to do – see earlier post. I’m trying to be more disciplined, but surely I can give myself a fifteen minute break every day or so – as long as it’s just fifteen minutes. This blogging thing can be addictive.

I noticed recently that 2006 is the 400th anniversary of the discovery of Australia by Europeans (the people who have gotten to write most of our history.) I was fourteen when I emigrated from Australia, so I never got the high school history, and a lot of details escape me. Of course, if you Google australia 1606 you get a Dutch site – I just can’t get away from them! Interestingly enough, I ran into a business associate just recently who said the same thing.

I’m no longer living in Australia, so I won’t get to see the reaction of the indigenous population to any celebrations of the event. If it’s anything like 1992 was in the Americas, I would expect some disgust and loud protest. But how can you blame them? After all, they still haven’t gotten credit for being the first people to discover America. Not to mention, of course, the abysmal treatment the Aborigines received at the hands of the Europeans – well into the twentieth century.

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