[vacri]

For the record, we stopped being a penal colony about 15 years before the US stopped being a slave-using nation...

[anotherevan]

But good to see the Australian sense of humou?r still survives.</irony>

[pbhjpbhj]

So, not yet then ... ah, you meant a legal slave using nation ...

[wil421]

Article is about Australia yet people still have to take jabs at the US.

I'm not really sure what you mean anyway.

[redblacktree]

Probably talking about things like this: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-...

[zo1]

I believe he is implying that there is still slavery on-going in the US, and will be going on for 15 more years at least.