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“I do hold the view that the luckiest thing that happened to this country was being colonised by the British,” he said. “Not that they were perfect by any means, but they were infinitely more successful and beneficent colonisers than other European countries.” – John Howard, October 26, 2023.

The lucky Aborigines    By Humphrey McQueen

In confirmation of our erstwhile prime minister’s perspicuity, there follows an extract from a venturer’s Memorial from the late 1720s to his Majesty, the Hanoverian George II.

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