Neville wrote:
If it wasn't for the residents of America telling the British to nick off,
Australia would still be undiscovered (not really) as they had to have somewhere else to send their Convicts and riff raff...
If we hadn't thrown the British out maybe the colonies would have been the penal colony that all of the convicts were sent to. POMs? Prisoners on Migration. Had a girlfriend from NZ and that is what she always referred to you Aussies as. Well as far as being from convicts Australia has become a great nation and I for one am grateful to have you folks as friends and allies.