Let’s talk about Captain James Cook.
One of the greatest mariners and scientists of all time, Cook arrived on Silver Beach in Botany Bay on April 29, 1770. I believe April 29 should be celebrated every year as James Cook Day.
Thanks to Captain Cook, Australia was colonised by the British and, as John Howard said recently:
‘I do hold the view that the luckiest thing that happened to this country was being colonised by the British.
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