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Just as a note; This; quote:is the flag of the Eureka Stockade. So, like, not just random geometrical shapes, and actually relevant to the accompanying chapter. Its meant to be a stylised Southern Cross, which is an Australian national symbol.  The Eureka Stockade wasn't actually that important to Australia's national formation or culture, it just gets played up a lot in our schools and media. Basically, a bunch of gold miners got pissed at the high cost of gold licenses in Ballarat and built a stockade in protest. The police attacked it, the miners shot back, and 27 people (police and miners) were killed. It was one of maybe three rebellions (at most, depending on how you define 'rebellion') in Australian history and it gets played up a lot in the Australian national myth, but it is of questionable significance. Mostly it just gives nationalists a flag to organise around and get tattooed on themselves. Honestly you just get the idea that the authors haven't really done a huge amount of research and have just grabbed a children's book on Australia and are going from there.
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Why do the authors of this book hate wheat so much? I mean, of all the bad things that Europeans brought to Australia, wheat really isn't the worst. Do they have the same levels of hatred for cattle droving and sheep farming? I think this weird "marsupials have bigger dicks so you're just jealous" thing is symptomatic of this weird White Guilt Captain Planet thing this book has going on. Marsupials aren't European, and thus are the victims of Europeans who hate them because Which is a weird enough sentiment when you apply it to indigenous Australians, but its just loving bizarre when you start to apply it to animals. Kurieg posted:The Capitol of Australia, Canberra, lies within this protectorate, and it's design of districts separated by greenery is apparently the result of Garou inspiration. Speaking as a Canberra resident, this is up there as one of the most hated things about the place. Garou are dicks.
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U.T. Raptor posted:That's a different loving continent drat it That, and diprotodons and giant wombats are the same thing, and big-rear end flightless birds are still around - they're called emus and cassowaries.
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unless they're trying to talk about Palorchestes or something, but I really doubt whoever wrote this book knows what that is.