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The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australian History (11-16-22)
Historian Geoffrey Blainey writes in the 2001 edition:
* The wide ocean parting Australia and Europe impeded the export of Australian commodities. The same wide ocean was also a barrier to the migration of people from Europe. Whereas one powerful cause of the United States’ rapid growth of population in the nineteenth century was its closeness to Europe, the most powerful brake on Australia’s growth of population was its distance from Europe. Historians of the United States often overlook this obvious fact, preferring to concentrate on the natural resources of their land and the enterprise of their people as the dynamos of national growth. In Australia we also overlook this obvious fact, concentrating on Australia’s deficiency of natural resources as the only reason why Australia was not a serious rival to the United States.
* Of all the countries in the new world to which Europeans in mid-century were flocking, the two where new land was dearest were Australia and New Zealand, the two countries most distant from Europe.
* In the egalitarian bushman’s society of the nineteenth century, education was often seen as a form of snobbery and a way of social advancement which broke up the camaraderie of working men.
* Australia’s emergence in the nineteenth century as one of the most sports-crazy nations of the world…was more to be expected in a society dominated by men…
https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=132209 Look at the violence inherent in the system! Look at how cowed people are by oppressive big government. They smile through their tears but I feel their pain.
Where's The Open Air Defecation And Drug Dealing in Sydney? Where's the fair dinkum freedom to drive drunk like a right Bogan?
Where's the poo? The homeless? The meth freaks? The gangs? The crime?
https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/in/Sydney
https://raywhitelowernorthshore.com.au/news/sydney-ranked-10th-best-city-in-the-world-for-quality-of-living-mercer-survey
https://teleport.org/cities/sydney/
https://www.claymorethistle.com/the-cost-and-quality-of-life-in-sydney/
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