Keypad Monkeys and GE/ CE/ CEPW/w, serving economic reform and systematically public-educating for the complete discard of Australian Council of Social Service policing, affective-empathy & disastrously antagonistic ‘How-do-you-feel?’ no-friendship social policy across the broad board since 1991 strongly recommend readers buy Anna Johnston’s book and also acquire ‘Far From a Low Gutter Girl’ re Adelaide and country town SA pre Federation – the days of Catherine Helen Spence, ‘speaking’ of the more than half-broken federation..

“Here I trace Maconochie’s connection to influential intellectuJoal networks and social reformers to examine how he used print and public testimony to shape the image of the Antipodean laboratory in the colonies and the imperial public sphere.

“Maconochie’s naval background and his wide-ranging intellectual interests positioned him uniquely to observe the workings of the penal system. Geographical and strategic curiosity, rather than any direct experience led to his proposal to annex the Sandwich Islands (later Hawai’i) as a British colony, and these traits underpinned his Summary View of the Statistics and Existing Commerce of the Principal Shores of the Pacific Ocean, etc. (1818), regarded as the first economic survey of the region. That substantial study was concerned to ‘fix public attention on the Pacific Ocean, that immense gap in our commercial relations:’ his statistical account sought to correct inadequate knowledge of the [quadrisphere’s] commercial and political resources. Maconochie’s intellectual connections with the Scottish and English Enlightenment and the admiralty ensured that he was among the founders and first office-holders of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830, which led to his appointment as first professor of geography at University College London .. Alison Alexander describes him as ‘an ambitious, self-confident theorist,’ and Maconochie’s career shows both the value and inherent risk when proponents of reform took metropolitan concepts into Antipodean practice. Eventually, Maconochie’s colonial methods were re-imported to Britain, [with questionable success but wide-ranging impact.]

“Maconochie claimed not to have preconceived ideas about penal systems, but he had speculated about the matter since 1818. Maconochie believed that the settlers in New South Wales were [ill-served by a penal system based on punishment] and exile rather than reform, casting [convictism] as a [violation] of settlers’ ‘civil rights as British subjects’ and a contamination of ‘their moral habits and feelings.’ Moreover, Maconochie was concerned that as long as it continued to be a penal colony, New South Wales could never become a ‘flourishing commercial establishment,’ which was the key to the linked port towns embedded in his Pacific vision. The fundamental principles of Maconochie’s penal reform were clear from the outset: prisoners’ positive actions should earn them marks through which they would earn their freedom from servitude, de-emphasising the time served under sentence. Prisoners would be grouped together in small family-sized [collectives] to reward them for behaviours based on [enlightened self-interest and social cohesion,] as opposed to the ‘separate system’ that [atomised] prisoners. So, too, Maconochie shrewdly made persuasive links to other pressing social matters: the secondary threat to mainstream (settler) society from the presence of unreformed prisoners, the moral degradation inherent in slavery that had recently been alleviated by abolition; and the economic and trade potential of [well-run] colonies with a properly mutual relationship to the imperial centre. ..”

That’s me done for major studies for Thu 11 Dec 2025

John Blundell

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