Questions for Australian media: Re underpayment of wages. What is Australian Labor Party doing? And what on earth are firms' personnel departments being paid for?
Latest update work here is on current economic activity, on corona virus in Australia (see hyperlink below) - Check also, the blog at: Dan Byrnes' Blog. Also working on: Looking anew at the maritime history of convict transportation and the ways Australian historians overlook obvious questions ... Finishing new history essays and looking afresh at pre-1775 Tidewater/colonial Virginia/Maryland and not impressed at all with the 2019/2020 state of genealogy research in Virginia/Maryland USA.
E-mail anytime to: dan@danbyrnes.com.au. For 2020: Now redesigning these websites (a huge job). Last heard of re Dan Byrnes' profile on www.academia.edu at 3351 hits (an increase of about 10 per day) for specialty history articles with hits from eg., with hits from, eg.,: a descendant of hulks convicts c.1786; a researcher at Penrith NSW, Australia, a UK researcher on Money Wigram, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona; researcher at Christchurch, New Zealand; Royal Holloway, University of London; University of Leiden. Have work cited on Google Scholar (by eg., Emma Christopher, A Merciless Place). Also have profiles on Facebook and Linked-In ...
13-5-2020: Message for Amazon/Prime Video Australia . . . Re "War for a New Nation", a four-hour+ documentary mostly on the military aspects of the American Revolution which I have not long seen by May-June 2020. It seems well-researched, well-scripted, well-narrated, and it quotes many US historians still living. But the proofreading of the accompanying spoken script, displayed on the screen, is appallingly bad; ludicrous, inept, illiterate, laughable, and worse-than-amateur. The result is a completely spoiled production. So don't argue, please, just fix it! Fix it soon or bear with the world's laughter of derision. It's a disgrace! It looks like it's been done by an illiterate computer program. What is this? Another symptom of the decline of US hard-and-soft power in the world? Proofreading by cowboys from Modern America? Or more Trumpian nonsense? Idiots! I say again! Fix it yesterday! I really don't give a tuppenny damn how much it costs, just fix it and fix it soon!
Yrs etc, Dan Byrnes.

What will NOT be closed for these websites will be sections for: poetry, family history, humour, personal ... For a few other remarks on closure of some of these websites see: re corona virus ...