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"The loss of America what can repay? New colonies seek for at Botany Bay."
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"With shield unsullied by a single crime, With wealth of gold, and still more golden fleece, Forth stands Australia, in her birth sublime, The only nation from the womb of Peace!"
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide
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"Governor Phillip had the satisfaction to find one of the finest harbours in the world, in which a thousand sail of the line might ride in perfect security."
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"Do you come from a land down under Where women glow and men plunder? Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover."
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"New Holland is a very large tract of land. It is not yet determined whether it is an island or a main continent; but I am certain that it joyns neither to Africa, Asia, or America."
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"The journey of the first humans to Australia is one of the most important events in history, at least as important as Columbus journey to America or Apollo 11 expedition to the moon."
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"The moment the hunter-gatherer set foot on an Australian beach was the moment that the Homo sapiens to the top rung in the food chain, and became the deadliest species ever in the 4-billion-year history of life on earth."
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