Australian History

[AU Fever]

Is there any record of what happened to the boy?

Saltytom,

Here's all I could find on poor little Johnny...

"In Australia Hudson became another government statistic with only one more official reference, made three years later on Norfolk Island.
Fear of starvation led to a division of the First Fleeters into two convict settlements. Half remained in Sydney, the others sailed to Norfolk Island, hundreds of miles off Australia's East Coast. Hudson was one of those transferred to Norfolk Island, a settlement that became notorious for child abuse.
The last official reference to Hudson, a record of punishment set out for him, provides a clear enough picture that the conditions he endured were brutal. A single line entry records Hudson's punishment on Norfolk Island as "50 lashes for being outside his hut", after 9pm."

Au

 

[AU Fever]

Who used these words, among others, while doing his job.
scumbags, pieces of criminal garbage, sleazebags, stupid foul-mouthed grubs, piss-ants, mangy maggot, perfumed gigolos, gutless spivs, boxheads, immoral cheats, and stunned mullets

Prime Minister Paul Keating

 

[Ramjet]

Yes one of our fine leaders. Great way to act

Your turn AU

 

[AU Fever]

Just looking for one that no one told Google about

 

[AU Fever]

The slogan "Victoria hails Victoria's choice" was used for which major event?

Au

 

[Dogmatic]

I was thinking that it may have been when they separated from NSW and became self governing. However still have not found anything to confirm this.
Just thought I would throw it out there.

 

[AU Fever]

Nope dog, this event happened after Vic split from NSW.

Au

 

[Ramjet]

This is a tough one.
My thinking that Victoria the Queen, approved some decision made by Victoria the colony....
Bloody hard when one word features twice in the slogan 8)

RR

 

[headbut]

Moomba ?

 

[the duck]

The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act or the start of federation

 

[AU Fever]

Ramjet, no it's the other way around - Victoria the colony hailed a decision by Victoria the queen.

Not Moomba HB.

Duck, this event happened before federation.

That should narrow it down a bit

Au

 

[the duck]

The British Act of Parliament separating Victoria from New South Wales, and naming and providing a Constitution for the new Colony, was signed ten years later by Queen Victoria on 5 August 1850. It was followed by enabling legislation passed by the New South Wales Legislative Council on 1 July 1851. This was formally the founding moment of the Colony of Victoria as separation from New South Wales was established by Section 1 of the 1851 Act

 

[AU Fever]

Sorry duck, this event was after Victoria's separation from NSW.

AU

 

[AU Fever]

Here's a quote from the book:

"Banners hung across the streets and every house and shop seemed to fly at least one flag; on Bourke Street, the Union Hotel and the Bull & Mouth were festooned with decorations. As they turned into Elizabeth Street and then proceeded west along Collins, ??????? saw outside the Criterion Hotel a three-metre-tall crown of gold and crimson bearing a banner in blue and gold proclaiming: 'A Queen's Choice, a People's Pride. Welcome!' "

Au

 

[Ramjet]

Ramjet, no it's the other way around - Victoria the colony hailed a decision by Victoria the queen.

Not Moomba HB.

Duck, this event happened before federation.

That should narrow it down a bit

Au

I knew i should have added.... or the other way round

 

[the duck]

the Duke and Duchess of York visit the opening of parliament in 1901 in melb

 

[AU Fever]

No duck, before then....

This person that the event was for was described by the Argus as "has not, we fancy, the inventive faculty, so useful in suggesting ingenious experiments for untried circumstances; nor the practical faculty, fitting him for the higher walks of statesmanship; but he has the administrative faculty, which constitutes a thorough man of business... his mind sharp but probably deficient in breadth"

Au

 

[the duck]

Melbourne Centennial Exhibition in 1888 or Duke of Edinburgh visit

 

[AU Fever]

Nope, sorry duck.

Not that late. Has something to do with the Victorian gold rush.

Au

 

[the duck]

This is a toughie