He spent two years exposed to the elements and tethered to a chain on the rock. His food was put on a rock and pushed at him with a pole. Sydney colonists found it amusing to row up to the rock and throw food and offal at him, and watch him eat. The Governor became ashamed of what was happening and had Anderson sent to Port Macquarie. He escaped and joined an aboriginal tribe, was recaptured and severely flogged.
He then committed a serious crime hoping to be hanged. Instead the authorities sent him to Norfolk Island.
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A new commandant — Alexander Maconochie — had recently taken charge of the Norfolk Island penal settlement. Significantly affected by some associates who were Quakers he was attempting to work out a less punitive approach to running a penal colony — offering rewards for good conduct rather than punishment for bad. His therapy for Anderson was simple — he gave the man some responsibilities by putting him in charge of some bullocks and let him stay with the animals out of range of the barracks to save him being taunted by the other convicts.
Anderson tamed the bullocks successfully and was soon being congratulated and spoken kindly to. Then he was given the job of helping to manage a signal station which he did with scrupulous care. Through our contemporary eyes we can perceive that Anderson probably experienced learning impairments and Acquired Brain Injury.
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Click here to download the article. The Sunday Workshop is here! Francis College, Milton Rd. Individual and Social Transformation Charles Anderson was a convict in the early settlement of Sydney. The role of values and spirit in our work. It took a fundamental reimagining of philosophy and approach emerging from a radically different spiritual platform for a life-giving option to be opened for Charles Anderson. Maconachie listened to his Quaker friends and was willing to have his world view disturbed by this radical spiritual tradition.
A non-conventional and non-punitive context was therefore offered to Anderson. Perhaps just as we draw from sociological, cultural, professional, academic and political frameworks we might also enrich our work by drawing from the more counter-cultural elements of our spiritual traditions to enable us to step aside from disabling, life-sapping service models and to energise compassionate and life-enriching work in community?
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