Andland

For the Tale of Australia (Southland) before 1901 see: Southland

After much long and often bitter mooting, the Banded Kingdom of Australia or (in English) the Commonwealth of Australia, was born on January 1st, 1901.

Fear of being overrun by the teeming folk-throngs to its near north was an ongoing worry for the new folkdom and strengthened its drive to welcome more folks from Europe. The mindjarring Japanish win in their war with Russia, only heightened the worry Australians had about their lot and undertakings in Asia. Australia leaders called for a bigger and better weaponed sea-fleet in the Great Sea of Frith to fend off any threat, but with the hub of British wield faraway in London, Australians could do little but hope that an Anglo-Saxondom steadfastness would never let their well-being and very being as a folk be threatened.

There was an underlying likemindness to keep a fairblooded folkstock, and the first weighty business of the new kithdom's folkmoot was a oneness to build a "White Australia". There would be no more incoming of dark-skinned or yellow skinned folks and there was a call to cast out the likes of those already in Australia. And almost forgotten, the thede's homegrown folk were locked away in drear asunderhoods and stll thought by most to be a doomed folk.

In 1914 at the outbreak of war in Europe, it was taken as given that Australia would help Great Britian. And Australia did its bit quickly by overrunning Germany's nearby settlings in The Great Sea of Frith, Samoa, Naura and Papua-New Guinea. To get ready for war 20,000 Australian fighting men landed in Egypt for war drilling and, together with the New Zealanders, the ANZAC tale was born.

Landing alongside British, French and Indian fighting men at Gallipoli to harry the Turks and lighten the heavily burdened Russia, these fighting men would come to stand for the ordeal of war and even the Australian kithdom itself. It was seen as a tale of boldness and stead-fastness amidst death and dree hindered greatly by witless British leadership in London and their here-thanes at Gallipoli. War writers hailed the Australians and New Zealanders for driving forward throughout the inslaught and their doggedness in holding back their foes' forward thrusts. It was a tale born not out of a sweeping win- Gallipoli was a crushing loss - but more for their deeds when with little likelihood of winning or even living-on they stood firm under withering firepower. Also it is a tale of freeminded and standalone souls whose steadiness came not from mindless warway drills, but out of the bonds of mateship and canniness under fire.

More than seven thousands Anzacs weere killed in only eight months, before British leaders came to understand that it was a hopeless plight. By the end of the war 58,000 Australians had been killed in the fighting. The Australian indwellers at this time topped little more than five million, and few homes throughtout the folkdom did not feel the loss of a loved-one.

If the Anzac's tale seems to bring to mind a feeling of oneness in the kithdom's war-running, that is not altogether true. For the bid by Folksteer's Headman, Billy Hughes, to bring in a call-up of men to fight in the war overseas was the true yardstick. In two yea-or-nay castings Australians were wholly at otherness with any call-up bid. More so there was a feeling amongst Australians of Irish stock that they might be called upon by the British to quell any uprising for freedom in Ireland should the call-up bid be ayed. Yet still, notwithstanding, even with the folks' wont being clearly spelt out, the nay-casts seems hollow when meetings of those against the call-up were broken up and Romish churchers, mostly Irish- Australians, brought to book for a lack of fatherlandlove. But for some, still, those not fully behind Australia's fighting to the last man, side by side with Britian, had to be Sinn Feiners or Bolsheviks.

After the War Australians shrunk back from any thought of un-one-ness, and from a world full of threats. Well into the 1930s, reeves and beadles sought to close the land against the latest thing in writing, film or huecrafting. Many books from abroad were banned, and some films forbidden, and fear of things outlandish and outborners was rife.

The 1920s were not thrivish times. Tillerman, fieldfolk, and the working-man were struggling barely to make a living. Worry was deepening over falling livelihood and the ongoing struggle between worker, and workhirer seethed with ill-will, bloody-mindness and, oft-time stand-up fighting in the worksteads and ways. When the Australian Labour Party took over Folksteer in 1929, the kithdom's wealthish outlook was waning, and the score of folks without work was heading upwards throughout the Land.

Because Australia's weal hinged heavily on European and American's thriving, the swift world-wide wealth downturn in 1929 hit the folkset with a shattering blow. Australia tried to shield itself behind higher and higher geldish walls, but by 1931 nearly one-fourth of the menfolk were without work, and others were working for a lot lower weekly income.

The thennish kith were wounded deeply by the harshness of the wanthriven and this sad time would sit uneathly in their minds well into the 1960s. The wanthriven picked off the frail and neediest folk firstly, and brought a true unhavishness back into homes. Some blamed fully the needy themselves for their wanhap, and called for the taking-away of babies from mothers and fathers who taught them to be needy. But others were ashakened into seeing that mostly folk were made needy by a downturn in world wealth and geld-way frameworks, not by their own way of life. Many Australians believed that such sad times should never be allowed to happen again.

The need to shape Australian folkset otherwisely was brought home starkly by coming of war in late 1939. Australian fighting-men left to fight in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. By war's end more than ten thousand had been killed in the fighting there. And war came to Australian shores itself in late 1941 when Japan's land war-band scythe a swathe through South East Asia to be on Australia's northern threshhold. In February 1942 Japanish warbirds bombed Darwin and many other towns in Northern Australia. Earlier pledges from Britian to come to Australia help in time of war, could not be fulfilled. Furthermore, the forethinking of Churchill of "beating Hitler first" did little to still the fears of Australians without their fighting men, away in Europe. The coming of thousands of fighting men from the Banded Folkdoms of Ameriksland, led by Here-thane Douglas Macarthur, greatly helped the thede in withstanding the Japanese. The seafight in the Coral Sea in May 1942, and its throwing back of the Japanish Sea Fleet, saw a lessening of the then-and-now threat to Australia. Some ten thousand Australian fighting-men lost their lives in fighting the Japanese in Asia and New Guinea, and another ten thousand of illness, starved, and worked to death under stone-hearted unyieldingness by the Japanese in their war lock-ups. For the homegrown Southlander, their wartime deeds raised hope that in the aftermath they might, for the first time, be taken into the mainstream of the thede whose ongoing they fought for.

The closeness of the Japanish drive forward through Asia awakened old fears of Australians having to fight off foes trying to take over their almost unfolked land. Among the most often-heard ways put forward to overcome this worry, was the need for them to bear more bairns, to build towns in the thede's northern hinterland, and folkfill them with hardworking newcomers from Europe. Mighty undertakings, such as the building of the ettenish Snowy Fells Wattflow Network in NSW began in 1947 to give greater wattflow to Victoria and NSW. Seeking a better life folks in thousands came to Australia after the War, and in the 1950s from war-torn eastern Europe, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Greece and other Lands to work on its building.

In 1949 Australians seeking steadiness and freedom from outside threat, rather than making better every day living, aye-casted into mootish power a right-wing Liberal Folksteer headed by Sir Robert Menzies. As a canny wheeler and dealer in mootish things, Menzies put great worth upon the gift women had made in bettering the Austalian way of life. Also he carefully picked out some, so-called "fiendish devils" as threats to the folkdom's way of life; even more so amongst his mootish foes whom he set upon loudly and often, blackening them as marxish backers.

In the mood of the Cold War, the folk stayed fearful throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and held dearly to stableness in a World that could quickly turn threatening. In the 1950s Australia sent a warband, under the shield of the UNO, to Korea, and also helped the British put down a Marxish uprising in Malaya to foster near-to-home steadfastness and a stronger, forward thinking for warding off the threat of Marxishness.

By the mid 1960s, the Australian folkweld had shaped itself otherwisely. It was time of better everyday living, but a sharp downturn in wealth in 1962, once more brought back starkly to older folks the bounds of wealth and thrivedom. The newcomers of the 1950s were working and bringing up their children alongside working-folk Australians and together were making a more manifold and many-sided folkweld. The children born after World War 11 were nearing full bloom. They were better learned, and more thriving than their elders and could get work more eathly.

Menzies sticking steadfastly to the friendship bond with the B.F Ameriksland sent an Australian warband to fight in the war in Vietnam. Australia's fighting in Vietnam, and even more so his later step of calling-up the kithdom's youth to fight in the war, lead to bitter uproar and upheaval with folks willingly gathering in tens of thousands in the ways of towns throughout the Land to call out loudly against Australia's going to war in Vietnam. Instead of meekingly followed the say-so of so called wise, white-haired elders, the youth stood up for the right to speak freely and not follow sheepishly the thinking and deeds of their leadership.

Full rights for the homegrown Southlanders were at last acknowledged by the almost all folks of the thede in 1967. This awakened anewly the pressing need for a fair outcome on their land rights askings. The call for a more even deal for women was also growing louder, and sat high on the list of mootish must-does. At the same time the folkweld began to shift from one where only white folk lived, to one where folk of any skin hue were welcome.

The Labor Party (ALP), under the leadership of Gough Whitlam came to power in 1972, bringing in sweeping shifts in health care, a new shaping of wedlock laws, fairer dealing with the first Southlanders over land right askings and free learning for all. For some, Labor did not have the skillfulness to handle the folkdom's wealth soundly. Others felt that the whole thrust of a new way forward for the thede was lost to an out-of-date law which let the British Queendom's headman in Australia cast out a folk-chosen folksteer in 1975.

Over the past thirty years the seeking of an Australian selfness in a folkdom fostering manifold kithships has stirred up great ado, at times a little bitter and often heated. Manifold kithshipness gives newcomers the right to keep their own homeland's folkways, their godkindly beliefs, their tongues and by-tongues. They must abide by the laws of Australia, give worth to the rights of others, and acknowledge English as the thede's everyday and business tongue. However noble its ettle may be, and whilst there is much wedlocking between folks of unsame kithships, it has put a heavy burden upon a folkdom seeking folkweldish oneness, amid folks of sundry kinds. In the English tongue, this way is known as "Multiculturism" It is fair to say that there is a lot of Australians whose forebears have been in the Land over many kith-ends, and even not unfew Australians whose forebears came in the 1950s, who feel that when newcomers choose to live in Australia they should heed the saying, "When in Rome do as the Romans do; and, when in Australia do as the Australians do."

Australia still keeps betokeningly one link with Britian: the British Queen is also the Queen of Australia. Since the 1980s the once gainful trade of goods between Australia and Great Britian has lessened. Nowadays Australia trades with the whole world, but overseas dealings are mostly with Asian lands, with Australia's foremost fellow traders being China and Japan.

New laws have given the Firstfolk never before had rights, but they still fall a long way behind their fellow Australians in many ways and hundredths-wise are struck down by sickness, earlier death, worklessness and lock-upness far greater than other Australians.

Throughtout their time in the Great Southland, white folk have had qualms and fears for their well-being as a folk faraway from their forebears'wellspring in Europe. Furthermore, much mooting has gone on about what kind of folkdom it should be. In the nowaday times of dreadwreck, many of the old feelings of uneathiness about its stead in the World, and even more so its stead in Asia are still left unanswered. The kind of weld, and its standing as a folkdom on the rim of Asia in the coming fifty years may yet be its greatest becalling.