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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Currency_lads_and_lasses<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 
Currency lads and lasses<\/strong> (collectively known as currency<\/strong> or the currency<\/strong>) were the first generations of native-born white Australians<\/a>. They were the children of the British settlers, including convicts<\/a>, who arrived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, beginning with the First Fleet<\/a> in 1788.[1]<\/a><\/sup> 

In the early years of the Colony of New South Wales<\/a>, the term \"currency\" was used to refer to any money other than pound sterling<\/a>, which was the only legal tender<\/a>.  Owing to a shortage of sterling, \"currency\" circulated freely, but was  not always accepted \u2013 the term carried implications of illegality,  inferior quality, and subordination.[2]<\/a><\/sup> By analogy, native-born colonials came to be known as \"currency\", in  contrast to the British-born \"sterling\". The first reference in print to  the native-born being called \"currency\" was in the Sydney Gazette<\/a><\/em>  of 13 September 1822, in a letter signed by \"Lydia Languish\" calling  for more social events to be organised for \"currency lasses\".[3]<\/a><\/sup> 

As applied to people rather than money, the term originally had  derogatory connotations \u2013 by the early 1820s, \"currency had stuck for  male and female native-born and everyone knew what it implied\". However,  it was soon reclaimed<\/a> by the native-born as a positive term, in order to distinguish themselves from more recent arrivals.[3]<\/a><\/sup> In Two Years in New South Wales<\/em>, published in 1827, Peter Miller Cunningham wrote: \"Our colonial-born brethren are best known here by the name of Currency<\/em>, in contradistinction to Sterling<\/em>,  or those born in the mother-country. The name was originally given by a  facetious paymaster of the 73rd Regiment quartered here\u2013the pound  currency being at that time inferior to the pound sterling<\/a>.\"[4]<\/a><\/sup> In 1832, Horatio Wills<\/a> \u2013 born in Sydney in 1811 to a convict father \u2013 founded The Currency Lad<\/em>. It was \"the first newspaper published in the colony which specifically set out to protect the interests of the native-born\".[5]<\/a><\/sup> 

\"The currency\" as a whole were usually separated according to  gender as \"currency lads\" and \"currency lasses.\" In 1849, J. P. Townsend  wrote: \"whites born in the colony...are...called 'the currency;' and  thus the 'Currency Lass' is a favourite name for colonial vessels,\"[6]<\/a>[7]<\/a><\/sup>  and, according to Edward E. Morris, also for hotels.[1]<\/a><\/sup>  In 1852, the term was still being used: \"A singular disinclination to  finish any work completely, is a striking characteristic of colonial  craftsmen, at least of the 'currency' or native-born portion.\"[8]<\/a><\/sup> However, when Morris published his Austral English<\/em> in 1898,  he indicated that the term was obsolete.[1]<\/a><\/sup> 

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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Currency_lads_and_lasses Currency lads and lasses (collectively known as currency or the currency) were the first generations of native-born white Australians. They were the children of the British settlers, including convicts, who arrived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, beginning with the First Fleet in 1788.[1] In the early years of the Colony of … <\/p>\n
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