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>John Curtin said, that Australia is an outpost of Britishness in the Pacific
>John Curtin said "This country shall remain forever the home of the descendants of those people who came here in peace in order to establish in the South Seas an outpost of the British race."
>British used to look down on Australia as colonial rubbish for them to use and throw away when it was convenient. The reason we became Americanized was because Churchill hated Australia and was willing to let us be overrun by the Japanese
>Culturally, John Curtin was the moment everything changed. There's a reason the old TV shows in Australia are British, and the new ones are American. There's a reason American troops participate in massive training operations every year in Australia.
>Holden, while still an Australian brand, was ultimately controlled by the United States
>Due to isolation and small internal market there is no much manufacturing in Austrlia
>Australia was built mostly by blue collar tradespeople, so tradies get the ladies and paid the most
>Most people work at Woolworths or Coles
>1971 - McDonalds opens in Australia
>1973 - Whitlam renounced the White Australia policy. In its place it established a policy of multiculturalism in a nation that is now home to migrants from nearly 200 different countries
>John Howard opened the flood gates to "international students", "foreign investors" and propped the "skills shortage"
>Kevin Rudd withdrew Australia from Iraq and tried to tax (mostly foreign owned) mining companies
>John Curtin said, that Australia is an outpost of Britishness in the Pacific
>John Curtin said "This country shall remain forever the home of the descendants of those people who came here in peace in order to establish in the South Seas an outpost of the British race."
>British used to look down on Australia as colonial rubbish for them to use and throw away when it was convenient. The reason we became Americanized was because Churchill hated Australia and was willing to let us be overrun by the Japanese
>Culturally, John Curtin was the moment everything changed. There's a reason the old TV shows in Australia are British, and the new ones are American. There's a reason American troops participate in massive training operations every year in Australia.
>Holden, while still an Australian brand, was ultimately controlled by the United States
>Due to isolation and small internal market there is no much manufacturing in Austrlia
>Australia was built mostly by blue collar tradespeople, so tradies get the ladies and paid the most
>Most people work at Woolworths or Coles
>1971 - McDonalds opens in Australia
>1973 - Whitlam renounced the White Australia policy. In its place it established a policy of multiculturalism in a nation that is now home to migrants from nearly 200 different countries
>John Howard opened the flood gates to "international students", "foreign investors" and propped the "skills shortage"
>Kevin Rudd withdrew Australia from Iraq and tried to tax (mostly foreign owned) mining companies
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