Originally Posted by Starman
Originally Posted by CarlsenHighway
Yeah, he was just a murderous bastard. Didn't deserve being made famous by a movie.
Says a lot about Australia that its two most legendary characters are Breaker Morant and Ned Kelly,
both of them actually just thieving murderers to be honest.


Morant is the most or 2nd most legendary Australian character?..where do you draw that conclusion from?
and if it wasn't for the English having their constant hate and mistreatment of the Irish , Kelly might not have
taken exception to it.

If you bother to read up on your British empire Kiwi colonial history, you will find it was the most lawless violent
white settlement in that part of the ocean under the British Empire.- It became so bad because:

1./ the unregulated transient nature of its white european occupants
2./ There was for a good time, no British marines or garrisons stationed there to keep the constant crime, violence,
and decrepit behaviour in check. The rampant violence and lawlessness that took place there was far worse
than what occurred under the martial law controlled British colony in Australia.

It got so bad that the British were forced to send a commanded detachment of military force from the NSW colony
in desperate attempt to try and get some sort of civil order in NZ. -At that time NZ wasn't really recognised as much,
for it was merely part of the Colony of NSW.



Breaker Morant and Ned Kelly are the first two legendary Aussie characters. The third one is the jolly swagman by the billabong.

You just made up that entire post about NZ history as you were typing it. And I'm not sure what that's got to do with Breaker Morant and the Ned Kelly. Neither of them ever went to NZ.

I'm not going to bother explaining 19th century New Zealand history to you. If anybody is interested there are some excellent books out there about it. Start with the musket wars and go forward from there.


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