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  1. Australian kangaroos introduced to the rest of the world?

    IIRC there has been a population of grey kangaroos in the UK for about 100 years, bought over as mascots for one of the WW's. I certainly remember seeing articles about it every couple of years as a kid. There have also been sightings in the US every so often and it's unclear whether they're...

  2. How different would New Zealand be if it were part of Australia?

    Before we go down the road of indigenous mistreatment, I have to disabuse everyone of the notion of that the 'stolen generation' was an assimilationist policy. It was paternalistic and poorly implemented but the purpose wasn't genocide, I provide an example that's already been through the...

  3. Ever Sunrise Bound: A True Account of our Oriental Odyssey. By Apollon Anthroides.

    Very cool, I like the language differences.

  4. Under the Southern Cross we Stand, a sprig of Wattle in our hand

    Nice Australia Day update, how fitting to have someone contemplating on the future of the country

  5. WI: Aboriginal horse culture?

    Indigenous Australian rather than first nation Australian, first nation is really more a North American thing.

  6. Potential Australian Population

    It seems our argument is rather "chicken or egg" isn't it. Of course an early workaround would be a Britain more dedicated to convict transportation, OTL it was definitely mismanaged around lesser departments and outsourced to corrupt shipping magnates. This would get more people here without...

  7. Potential Australian Population

    The point is that if you have an early enough successful population dispersal, before mass transit and mass communication, you can create more urban centres and indeed more types of urban centres. Which means in the era of mass migration after ww2, Australia is more attractive a prospect and...

  8. Potential Australian Population

    I heavily disagree, Melbourne and Sydney in particular are only so la r ge because it was so easy to "make it" there compared to the wider countryside. There were so many attempts to incentivise people to move out there which got attention, the latest IIRC was WW1 vets, but the poor conditions...

  9. Potential Australian Population

    Maybe not directly, but an increase in usable farmland will have the effect of dispersing the population across the country rather than concentrating it in a handful cities. This is especially relevant from ~1850-1930, after Australia became productive but before cars became ubiquitous and...

  10. Potential Australian Population

    A theory I've held for a while is potentially piping water from new guinea had it remained part of the country. No idea how viable it would be, but I figure they get a fair bit of excess water up there.

  11. What is the closest thing in history have to a 'religious genocide'?

    I'm surprised nobody has brought up the systemic annihilation of the Zoroastrian faith, it certainly fits the modern criteria of a genocide and you don't really see any Zoroastrians around today.

  12. Is Nazi rule worse than colonial conditions?

    Jews, gypsys, and slavs maintain the cultural practices which were sought to be destroyed by the nazis, the scale to me is irrelevant as in my first post in this thread. It is the completion of genocide which makes it a more abhorrent crime, the erasure of a peoples entire history. The theory...

  13. Is Nazi rule worse than colonial conditions?

    Fine, ignore me saying that I thought their genocide was worse than the holocaust but quibble about language reconstruction. A language is not a culture or an identity, nor is simple bloodline descent. Attempts to reconstruct are admirable but ultimately it will be impossible to recreate due to...

  14. Is Nazi rule worse than colonial conditions?

    There are people of tasmanian aboriginal descent and a few words and customs as preserved by white anthropologists. You may as well tell me the romans are still around because of the pope.

  15. Is Nazi rule worse than colonial conditions?

    An FYI and a little bit of IMO, the genocide in Tasmania eclipsed the scale of Nazi Germany because it was successful. 100% successful. It was an entirely different form of 'colonialism' than was carried out on the mainland in that it was a policy of extermination rather than one of retribution...

  16. Pre-colonial civilized Oceanian states?

    You do realise that there was at one stage a tongan empire which has resulted in a russia-poland level hatred between them and samoa to this day?

  17. WI: The Nazi's prioritize holocausting the western slavs instead of the jews.

    Was there really a priority system? AFAIK the numbers of jewish and non-jewish polish civillian losses were roughly the same.

  18. British convicts over earlier existing Australian settlement?

    I find this doubtful, Aboriginal population was concentrated most densely in the northeast and the great barrier reef does not lend itself well to trading ports, that's ignoring the tropical disease and tribal warfare endemic to the region. As per metalinvader665, I can't see the British too...

  19. To Grasp the Heavens

    *applause*

  20. Map Thread XVII

    You obviously have not seen the miles and miles of sugarcane farms from cairns to cooktown. It's also great cattle country, or would be if the farmers were allowed to cull the crocs in the waterholes. Mainly it's environmentalists, native advocacy and utterly incomptetent local government which...
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