The First Fleet is the name given to the eleven ships that left Great Britain, bound for Australia, on 13 May 1787. The journey took 252 days and the route was via Tenerife and Rio de Janeiro to the Cape of Good Hope. The 1044 passengers aboard the ships included officers, their wives and children, some free settlers and 504 male convicts and 192 female convicts.
is the typical Australia aversion to boat people some kind of Freudian denial & shame syndrome about one's own past & roots?
