Every city in Australia seems wonderful, but iβm sure, like in every large country with many cities, several of the cities are just βanother cityβ that could be in any other country. Every country has a cultural capital that may be different from its actual political or economic centers of the city. Like Chiangmai in Thailand, Marrakech in Morocco, Kyoto in Japan, Yogyakarta in Indonesia etc etc. What city in Australia would be the most Australian
British territories got quite involved in funding the construction of RN warships during the great naval race of the early 1900s β Australia, New Zealand, Malaya βΒ but they must have come to believe at some point that the British fleet would not be sufficient on its own to protect them. So what's the history of the Royal Navy's relationship with the broader empire?
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While scumbag White Supremacist Colonials openly threaten to murder Maori Women, MP's & others, after the Colonial Coward mass murder of innocent Muslims in Christchurch, their State instead continues to help uninvited wealthy White Property Speculators physically attack Maori trying to hold on to remaining land that the British haven't stolen yet. Kupapa and Kingitanga may shake every Colonial abuser Crown Politician, Royal, Corporate, Pedophile Christian Pope or Priests hands but the majority of us here and around the indigenous world (along with many others) cheer on the chance these racist imposter, thieves and murderers may be brought to justice for once. And their Institutions undone. They all put ropes around our ancestors necks after pretending to be allies. Instead of trying to heal the damage of their Empire murders and theft, Britain has run away to a racist Brexit that is being sold out by a corrupt Government to the corrupt National Security State of America. Who are now setting up rocket launches here. China is welcome to help address this unbalance. Haere mai.
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202106/23/WS60d2e368a31024ad0bacb00d.html
Chinese diplomat urges Canada to stop human rights violations against indigenous people
"A senior Chinese diplomat urged Canada on Tuesday to immediately stop human rights violations against its indigenous people, and called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to keep following the human rights issues in Canada.
Jiang Duan, minister of the Chinese mission to the United Nations in Geneva, made the remarks at the ongoing 47th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, saying he is deeply concerned about serious human rights violations in the North American country.
Speaking on behalf of a group of countries, Jiang noted that historically, Canada robbed the indigenous people of their land, killed them, and eradicated their culture. The world was shocked to learn the recent discovery of the remains of over 200 indigenous children at a Canadian boarding school, he said.
He quoted reports as saying that during the 19th and 20th centuries, over 150,000 indigenous children in Canada have been forcibly taken away from their parents and sent to boarding schools.
"They were subjected to malnutrition, and many fell victims to abuse and rape. At least 4,000 children died of disease, neglect, accidents or abuse while at school
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Iβm guessing that it may have a bit to do with other people vouching for your identity but I ask the question because Iβm thinking of writing a time travel novel and therefore need to know how the protagonist will prove their identity when engaging with the justice system of the time, acquiring/renting property and getting married etc. Iβm yet to decide precisely when I want it set but I do know that itβll take place somewhere between 1600 and 1899 in Britain but also possibly colonial Australia; the person is from Australia and so either travels back to Britain if the novelβs set prior to 1788(although explorers running into a random white dude in pre-colonial Australia could be interesting), or the novelβs set after 1788 and the protagonist travels back to colonial Australia.
I want to work out all the facts of the story before I actually decide whether itβd be worth writing.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2021/may/17/who-owns-australia
"Who owns Australia? [check link for maps]
Complex web of data reveals large swathes of country controlled by small number of billionaires and large companies
Josh Nicholas, Calla Wahlquist, Andy Ball and Nick Evershed
Who owns the Australian outback is a vexed question. The true answer is First Nations peoples, whose ownership stems back 60,000 years. The legal answer is more complex. Itβs a mess of titles β freehold, pastoral leases, crown leases, public land, native title and land held by Aboriginal trusts.
And no two jurisdictions store or share that data in the same way.
Six months ago Guardian Australia set out to learn who owns the outback. The data we received was unwieldy, incomplete, inconsistent and often came with a hefty price tag. There is no nationally consistent protocol for recording land tenure and land use information, or even clearly established definitions of what constitutes ownership or control of land.
So, in the absence of official data, we have collated large datasets from every state and territory and pieced together a database of land ownership. We then looked to the work of a rural newspaper, the Weekly Times, which has been tracking farm ownership. We also looked at information contained in media reports, official websites of known major landowners, cattle brand directories, government servers and other online maps.
The information we have sourced paints a picture of increasingly consolidated land ownership in outback Australia and a growing Indigenous estate.
Who owns Australia?
Showing land categorised by tenure type into three categories. Notes: 1) Pastoral leases are grouped with private ownership as the leaseholder effectively has control of the land for some purposes, though not to the same degree as for freehold. 2) The percentage for Indigenous ownership shows two measures, the first being exclusive title areas, the second includes non-exclusive native title areas 3) Crown Leases shows areas in NSW and TAS for which we were unable to determine if they are pastoral or publ
So, changing subject from the hundreds of bugs and unifished textures, let me bring up some very bizarre things about the actual map changes in Leviathan Warships, ''Free time projects'' which were front and centre portrayed as a keystone of the patch that was to come alongside the expansion pack.
As some of you might remember, i made a similar post on Golden Century, but the Anglophone bias has only gotten worse, believe it or not Just like i said then, the development stats indicated that the EU4 team seemingly doesnt give a rat's backend about CNs that dont speak english in the modern day, and voila, Leviathan made a USA + Australia patch. Despite the absolute state of South America in EU4.
As for the development numbers themselves, through the use of custom nations, i measured the development of colonial regions yet again, and the results are complely beyond the pale. Here are they: https://i.imgur.com/FCafUSy.png
Your eyes do not decieve you. Colonial Australia has more development than Peru, the beating heart of the Spanish and Inca Empires. This is the kind of bias that would make the most wild of balkan nationalists blush. I already elaborated extensively in said biases in my old post, but this is now getting well into utterly comedic levels. Many of these areas didnt have a single urban settlement, compared to the many hundreds of those in modern Peru alone. Canada is also wealther than Colonial Peru somehow, i guess all those fur traders had some real nice hidden cities in the tundra.
The USA bias in development grew even more relentlessly, with the Thirteen Colonies continuing to be the worst offender. I've seen 4th of July parades less proud of the USofA than Paradox, who made just the eastern seaboard have almost twice the wealth of the Inca Empire before contact. Louisiana also got a buff for some reason, despite being throughly underdeveloped and of no interest to colonizers throughout the timeframe. South America was abandoned to rot yet again, except of one monument. Speaking of, fun fact! South America is the continent with the least number of Monuments in the game. Just one. As i said two years ago:
> And in the end, this is why North America has twice the number of Colonial Regions, and why Iberia did not get a ''proper'' update, as well as its most important Colonial holdings: EU4's modernity biased view of history, and col
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