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We are called white but are really only paler.
We may be albino, although not necessarily so.
Sometimes we are even called “Pink”.
We are sacred and a symbol of power.
We are a burden should the King give you one because we cannot be put to work but must be maintained.
The King, who recently died, had ten.
What are we? A “pink” elephant
Beagle Bay. In the late eighteen hundreds French Trappists arrived to bring education and their religion to the locals. Then German Pallottine missionaries replaced the French and, although they were themselves interned during the Great War, worked with the locals to build the church by 1918. It has survived cyclones and ants, heat and damp and am still in use but its greatest claim to fame are the shells used to decorate it. (Magenta)
In 1616, one hundred and fifty-four years before Cook sailed the east coast of Australia, the crew of the “Eendracht” nailed a flattened pewter plate to a post on the island now known as Dirk Hartog Island off the west coast of Australia. Would the history of Australia be different if the Dutch had landed on the mainland snouth of Perth? (Magenta)
IThe first convicts to be transported to Australia arrived on the First fleet in 1788.
The last convicts to arrive in Australia were transported to Western Australia in 1868.
Samuel Speed arrived in the Swan River Settlement in 1864.
He was twenty- five years old and sentenced to seven years for arson.
On the 27th of August 1938, he was interviewed by the Mirror newspaper in Perth.
At that stage, he was living in an Old Men’s Home in Perth. (The Letter)
