A bill of wrongs more likely. Australia has always been one of the first to ratify the UN Human Rights Conventions but is the only country not to have incorporated them into law.

@FrayedBear It isn't that aboriginals have no rights. They do. It's that we don't have a bill of rights for anyone.

@DragonDust I never mentioned First Nations People and I'm well aware of Australian hypocrisy having been denied mine and my child's rights by a full bench of the Australian Family Court.

Jesus is probably completely mythological.

I doubt that the British connived in any way in connection with the sinking of the Lusitania.
A destroyer could have been dispatched to escort it, but wasn't: but it wasn't thought to be in too much, if any, danger. The captain didn't take the most basic precaution of zig-zagging, which would have made an attack by torpedo harder.
Churchill may have appreciated the benefits to Britain of the sinking, but it's unlikely he contributed.
He lamented later that if America had entered the war just after the sinking, many lives would subsequently have been saved that were lost – he was not the ogre some believe he was.

I heard someone attribute a saying used by Abraham Lincoln as being Reagan's. That was annoying. (Was a long time ago – I forget the saying.)

@Beelzebant I'm rusty on this, but I recall that Churchill directed the navy not to protect ships like the Lusitania, tempting the Germans because he wanted the US in the war, then exerted pressure on the Enquiry into the sinking not to expose the navy's actions, even thinly threatening the Judge heading the Enquiry to play ball, though he did not and refused to be pressured. This went back to Churchill, who defamed the captain of the Lusitania for years to deflect his own actions. New history has shown it was a sordid tale and reflects poorly on Churchill. Some have to be sacrificed for the greater good, especially 'lower classes'.

Hello. Where have you been? Have you just got back from xmess festivities?

Ah yes, the Pommie run carnage of ANZAC troops that should never have happened. I had a Great-Uncle who served at Gallipoli, he was shot twice, once by a Turk ( which gave him the wound that sent him home,) and once by a Pommie Officer while him and two of his mates were return from a reco, all because the Pom Officer couldn't quite remember the password.
I had 2 Uncles who served in WWII, 1 in the European/African Theatre and 1 in the Pacific Theatre with the Yanks.
Uncle Dave served at the Battle of Tobruk, started off as private, got promoted to a Sergeant, then got demoted back to the ranks simply because he shot a Pommie Officer in the bum, the Pommie was outside of the lines one night trying to find his way back to his tent, stopped for a shit and poked his bum up in the air while pulling his pants back up, being on sentry duty and given FIRM orders to shoot ANYTHING moving in the 'No Mans Land region' Uncle Dave obeyed the orders to the letter, took aim and fired, as he once told me, " at the biggest part of the body he could see." No-one ever found out if the Pommie ended up with 'brain' damage though.

When both uncles got together they'd compare notes on the 'allies' they served with and both would agree that the only ally worse than a Pom was a Yank.

@Triphid Thanks for that hilarious brief tour of the family history - loved it. I would love to say that I had a pommie mate who was a Tobruk Rat who got shot in the arse by an Ozzie sentry whilst pulling his daks up after having a shit in no man's land but sadly I can't. What a ripper of a tale or should that be tail? ??????

@Triphid my Tobruk Rat mate just bought and sold watches and cigarette lighters throughout the war and after. Met him whilst waiting for the commuter train to Gosford from Sydney during the weekly go slow. Back then it took 2 hours 20 minutes to travel 50 kilometres - now it takes 2 hours 30 minutes. That's progress.

@FrayedBear Uncle Dave had a 'talent' for scrounging, especially in the Officers Tents, he was well known for his ability to never return empty handed from a sojourn into 'whinging Pomland' as he called it.
On one occasion he told me how he 'manage' to convince 5 bottles of Johnny Walker, 4 bottles of Dom Perignon, a case of English Digestive Biscuits, 16 pairs of the best English socks, 8 fresh baked loaves of bread and a dozen tins of the finest English Stew to 'defect' to Aussie camp. The poms searched everywhere for those nasty defectors but found absolutely nothing at all. Mind you, his fellow Aussie mate enjoyed them immensely though.

@Triphid I bet they did.