Backbencher

I found that chapter 4 of Clark's "A Short History of Australia" to be very interesting. There are several men who emerge to be the governor. It seemed as though the man in the governor's office changed quite frequently. I thought that Governor Brisbane's radical idea dealing with the convict system was interesting. By moving the convicts who were able to be reformed to the countryside, he thought that they would be free from all evil temptations and associations. Land grants to emancipists and expirees were abolished. Brisbane was advised that if he did not distingish between emancipist and immigrant, he would disgust the free part of society. I found it a legitimate reason to do this as the British government did not want the convicts to have a better life there than the one provided by a life of crime in Britain.