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Not a particularly flash moment: how the PM misread our history – Sydney Morning Herald

A historian challenges Scott Morrison’s interpretation of January 26, but also argues we’ve become a better society because Australia Day is a day of contention…

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His language was of a knockabout kind. Its hard not to wonder whether this habit is seasonal. The summer seems to bring out the most casual side of the man who doesnt hold a hose, mate.
Not particularly flash: its the kind of thing you might say if you ate a dodgy prawn at a barbecue lunch.
Strictly speaking, Morrison isnt really right, even on this score. After a voyage lasting more than eight months, most convicts will have been pleased to arrive at their destination. Unlike the death ships of…

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