Convicts chewing on the bread ration served as lunch on their first Christmas Day at Sydney Cove in 1788 would have found the weather the most striking difference from their English homeland. Instead of the wintery landscape of England, the new arrivals were adapting to a burning December sun that beat down on arid bushland and scrub.
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Peter Kurti is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies
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