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Originally Posted by aussiblue
WRONG! Western Australia was founded as a free settlement. In the Goldrushes it did ask for the UK to send convicts to provide labour lost to the goldfield but it was not a "penal settlement".
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RIGHT!, because I didn't say
every other state was a penal settlement, nor did I say SA was the
only free settled state now did I...
Mind you, Perth is like the most isolated city on the planet so that's probably punishment enough..