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Everything that ever happened in Australian history is very bad and must be stopped – now

28 February 2020

3:04 PM

28 February 2020

3:04 PM

There’s numpty — and there’s peak numpty.

Numpty is the government wasting our money on something that never happened; marking the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s claiming of our east coast for Britain by arranging a circumnavigation of Australia by a replica of his vessel, the Endeavour (hint to Education Minister Dan Tehan – feed “Matthew Flinders” into Google and see what happens).

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