Australia Day New Poll, page-56

So Guv Phil was just carrying out his duty
whats all the fuss then?

Maybe it's because as he arrived he was actually a commodore and the ford fans don't like it

Seriously though the convicts were given rights and consideration not afforded prisoners in England so some say he helped forge Australia's egalitarian society.
Perhaps something to commemorate as a result of establishing the penal colony and coping with hard times.