Mark Hutchinson, historian, remarked to me on 26 September 2010; ‘what a fascinating history! It always amazes me the degree to which Australia has been a page across which the history of the whole world has been written. Spanish conversos, Atlantic triangle investors, Anglican remittance men…fascinating stuff! I wouldn’t be too quick to shy away from even the slave trade involvements – it is all part of the history, and the only ‘good’ in history is whether we have learnt to do better. Most of the English respectability was heavily implicated in all those less-than-desirable attachments – it is the nature of human societies. We are all implicated all the time. I do hope you will go ahead and write that history for your daughters!’