Backbencher

I find the colonization of Australia very interesting.
At first all that Great Britain thought of was, wow what a great place to stick our incorrigibles they will be out of the country and out of our prisons and generally out of mind. When they decided to turn them into colonies didn't it cross someone's mind that, hey these are the people we wanted to go and now they are the leading force in establishing new colonies? I for one would have been a little worried about the general outcome.

I think what I found most amusing about this whole situation was once people in Britain figured out they could possibly have a better chance at a life in Australia that they tried to get transported.

New Zealand was planned better but thinking that everything would follow the plan perfectly was shortsighted. What can go wrong will go wrong. People were using land they did not own, but rented it which was not at all what was envisioned, and from there everything just kind of falls apart. If there weren't landowners to pay sufficient wages to farm workers they could never buy their own land and continue the cycle.

Also the gold rushes to Otago and Westland did not help at all. When people in general think, get rich with minimal work I think most would jump at the chance. It's like the lottery today in America, the jackpot was huge recently and I am willing to bet people were buying tickets that never bought one before. But in the case of the gold rush people go where the gold rushes are causing unplanned growth. Which helped in destroying the perfect planned settlement of New Zealand.