It was 1976 when the theme park based on Australian colonial history came to life.
In the UK, there are plans for a new theme park based on history, in this case British history. The company involved, we’re told, has already pioneered the idea in Spain and France.
Sovereign Hill, mind you, was never a patch on Old Sydney Town. Old Sydney Town had it all. It had the floggings, plus the floggings, oh and there were also the floggings.My point is that although there were other attractions - the olden days classroom, the olden days ship, the olden days shoppe – every other offering was bleached from your memory once you’d witnessed the floggings.
Yet, there must be ways to create an entertaining theme park and still be true to our history. The floggings might have to be abandoned, but surely the Emu Wars could be re-enacted every day: soldiers firing at emus, the emus sidestepping the bullets, the birds led to victory by their emu leader. There was a time when Australians couldn’t get enough of their history. By day, we’d visit Old Sydney Town or Sovereign Hill; by night, we’d watch TV shows like. Most people were less aware of the troubled nature of our history, and so TV drama became a chance to enjoy period clothes, digging for gold and the odd convict flogging.Once non-Indigenous Australians became more aware of the country’s true history of settlement and dispossession, we began pushing history offstage.
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