RESTORE AUSTRALIA by Alexandra Marshall 24 views I've come to the end of my patience. Our nation, our culture, we built an incredible thing. Australia was the final experiment of Western Civilisation - a colony built from scratch at the edge of the map that became a prosperous, peaceful, beautiful nation. It was miracle. An impossible task. I doubt it would have succeeded if not for the British attitude we inherited. The idea that we 'have a cup of tea and keep going' evolved into the billy tea and damper of our pioneers. It's the 'She'll be right, mate!' attitude that kept us alive. I don't think the world properly appreciates what it was like for those early settlers to walk into a patch of bush and lay the foundations of a city. Read their journals. Their stories. What they faced was the terror of isolation from the crib of the world. Australia was the product of hard work - from petty convicts who were used as slave labour until earning their freedo...
