Alan Bouch (30/6/1936 – 8/6/2021) was President of what is now the British Australian Community, from 1993 to 1996. This was a period of great difficulty for the BAC. Without Alan’s firm hand on the helm at that time our association would not exist today. But because of Alan’s vision and energy it was also […]
Culture, history & society
Penda: The last great Anglo-Saxon Pagan King
This article looks at a bit of English History, where we go back to 7th century, to the era known as the Dark Ages, to find the last Pagan Anglo-Saxon King, by the name of Penda. He was the and son of Pybba of Mercia, with an ancestry supposedly extending back to the Pagan Germanic […]
Information for prospective British migrants to Australia
The British Australian Community is not a registered immigration agent, and we therefore can offer only the most general advice to intending migrants. A great deal of information, however, is available from other websites. On this page we list, under appropriate subheadings, other sites that should be useful to prospective migrants of British stock. The […]
Thunderstruck
The British impact on Aussie music The Swinging Sixties and British Musical DNA The Swinging Sixties was a British cultural phenomenon – influencing fashion, dance, art and, most significantly, music. The sounds were vibrant, creative, compelling. This creative musical source emanated from a combination of the harmonies and lyrics of the Beatles, the guttural throb […]
Gallipoli – the facts behind the Myths
By Dr Geoffrey Partington The Aim The losses on the Western Front in the early months of war in 1914 and 1915 were far higher than each warring nation had anticipated. After early German advances in Flanders, a virtually stationary Western Front ran from the English Channel to the Alps and thousands of lives were […]
News & commentary
Anglophobia costs Australia $millions
The United Kingdom Settlers’ Association survey of British migrant needs was completed in 1999, with financial assistance from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. As a result of very extensive publicity, almost 11% of the British-born “usual residents” of the City of Melbourne completed survey forms. The largest group of respondents was aged 20 […]
Threats to Brits
There are many threats to the British migrant presence in contemporary Australia. This site will keep you up-dated on some of them. For the moment, read about a sad man called Harold Scruby… Harold Scruby is the executive director of an outfit called Ausflag. You’ve probably heard of him. He’s always writing to newspapers, complaining […]
British Genes Resist AIDS
Six hundred and fifty years ago, the Black Death was stalking Europe. It arrived on ships from Asia, carried by fleas that had infected rats on board the ships. Before it burned itself out, the epidemic had killed about a third of the European population. Today, another plague – AIDS – has ravaged the world. […]
British Australians (officially) second-class citizens
Chief Justice Murray Gleeson Justice Bill Gummow Justice Ken Hayne Justice Mary Gaudron These are the four judges of the High Court of Australia who ruled, on the 23rd of June 1999, that Britain is a “foreign power”. (The remaining three judges dissented, arguing that the High Court had no right to address the issue […]
Anglophobia – 7.8% of Australian residents hate Brits
On 23/2/2011 the (Melbourne) Herald Sun newspaper published the results of a very large study which concluded that Australian residents of all racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds particularly disliked specific groups of other Australian residents. The study, released by Kevin Dunn of the University of Western Sydney, was conducted over 12 years and involved 12,500 […]