~ British Empire : a sense of place and of history ~
If the example of the British colonialists, is anything to go by, it can takes some people a very long time to develop a sense of place, with an understanding of another culture, and the people who make up the population. Fortunately these are cyclic experiences and history repeats itself so patently, that we can learn as much from past writings as we can from contemporary media, despite the fact that he modern world is more complex, our understanding of the world around us goes through very similar learning processes, as our forefathers encountered.New South Wales was established as a colonising experiment on an undeveloped continent, a place where the convict was a means of supplying labour and the military and free settlers a way of managing and utilising this resource. The denial of the extensive aboriginal nomadic culture and people's as custodians and occupiers of the land was a disgrace, and the offences that came from this denial were criminal.The broad scoped insights and extensive writings and influence within the British Empire of those who voiced argument such as Jeremy Bentham, took the challenges of comparing strategies and results across the colonies and military fronts are now available online and provide insight into many aspects of those times, hitherto obscure.
"The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham is a series of volumes which, when complete, will form a definitive edition of the writings of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832). It includes texts which Bentham published (or which were published in his name) during his lifetime; and also the many texts which remained unpublished at his death, and which exist only in manuscript". Refer site...
Civil registration became compulsory at different times in each state of Australia. Prior to civil registration the only records available for births, deaths or marriages will be early church records.