I'm guessing the debt-stricken prisoners will be offered forgiveness of their debts if they come and work in New South Wales?
Yes the biggest stations at up to almost ten thousand square miles is larger than Israel or the size of Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island combined.The largest cattle station in Australia (in South Australia) runs cows at about one per two square kilometers, close to about 400 acres per cow. A ranch in Florida with a similar number of cattle has them at about 10 acres per cow. The Outback is usable for extraordinarily low density pastoral activities, but the kind of intensive agriculture that can support endemic urban populations is impossible without significant irrigation.
Yes but you also need administrators and at that time it was very easy to end up in a debtors prison.It would be a source to increase the population however just how useful they would be is another question. if you wan to grow the colony you need doers and they (the aristocrates) alwmost certainly will lacking in basic farming skills
I have virtually no familiarity with Australian history so I am not sure what the impact of the change will be or how things will be different in this timeline. That being said, I really dont care and am interested in following along as I have read several of your other timelines/stories before and have always been impressed.
I'm guessing the debt-stricken prisoners will be offered forgiveness of their debts if they come and work in New South Wales?
"Endemic urban populations? What are they? All urban populations are by definition endemic, belonging to one particular place or area?endemic urban populations .
Apart from said pestiferous rebels, don't overlook the fact that TL is only 52 years after Culloden and well into the end of the first phase of the Highland Clearances. An earlier offer of assisted passages from the Scottish ports would almost certainly be oversubscribed. IOTL many landlords actually paid for these migrant passages so external, additional sources of finance would inevitably result in more migrants - many skilled in sheep farming, general agriculture, timber extraction, fishing and quarrying. These migrants would surely be more welcome that the sweepings of the gaols, debtor prisons in England and Ireland?1 October 1798, Rag and Bone Inn, Sydney, Colony of New South Wales
Areas such as Ireland could be focused upon, where the absence of pestiferous political rebels would be welcomed. If more numbers could not be obtained, then other alternatives would have to be looked at,
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Maybe he needs to go full Vic II for it.Just waiting for more, of course...
You need to edit your first threadmark, @johnboy; it's 1796, not 1896...