My Idea = Add 'banishment' to prison sentences.

[bluesdave]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

What's wrong with admitting your country was also the destination of convicts?

Because they like to keep their heads in the sand. It makes the Yanks (and the Poms), feel good to continually say that we Aussies are all descended from convicts, in spite of the fact that this is not true - as you know, convict descendants are a minority of the Australian population. All of my ancestors were free settlers - not that this matters. I don't hold people accountable for what someone did 200 years ago, and many of the convicts were guilty of being poor. Not being guilty of committing a serious crime.