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A bunch of convicts the lot of us.

• vacri 10y ago
  For the record, we stopped being a penal colony about 15 years before the US stopped being a slave-using nation...
  • pbhjpbhj 10y ago
    So, not yet then ... ah, you meant a legal slave using nation ...
    • wil421 10y ago
      Article is about Australia yet people still have to take jabs at the US. I'm not really sure what you mean anyway.
      • zo1 10y ago
        I believe he is implying that there is still slavery on-going in the US, and will be going on for 15 more years at least.
      • redblacktree 10y ago
        Probably talking about things like this: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-...
  • anotherevan 10y ago
    But good to see the Australian sense of humou?r still survives.</irony>