January 26, celebrations of Ozstensibilysettlingofaportformercantileinterests Day

"East India Company [was] a private company with a charter, and a monopoly over whole quadrant of the globe, the east coast of Australia included, till 1819, when it expired and was not renewed. (To go ahead with a settlement in New South Wales the British Government had actually (sic) to secure the Company's approval)." (David Malouf, Made in England, p.39).