An Australia Day Thought.

[OzzyElsie]

They were, in short, disloyal ingrates best summed up by an editorial in a Sydney newspaper in 1825, which put its finger right on the rough nut of the problem: "They have lost their English spirit and have degenerated into Australians".

p8 Peter Fitzsimmons Eureka - the Unfinished Revolution.

Sounds about right to me