Australians, like Americans, have ancestors who came from somewhere else. My ancestors risked life and limb crossing oceans in little wooden boats, in the hope of a better future than the past they had left behind.  Sailing the oceans exposed them to dangers they could hardly have foreseen – incompetent navigation, storms, icebergs, shipwreck, disease and starvation, mutiny and pirate attack – unimaginable perils that might have caused them to rethink the journey had they known how uncertain the outcome … Continue reading