Error Australis Quotes

“It’s amazing how often this happens: an altruistic statesman does his civic duty by advising voters of the sinister forces seeking to attack them, and completely by accident the voters become convinced that this statesman is the right man to keep them safe and vote for him in massive numbers.”
― Ben Pobjie, Error Australis: the reality recap of Australian history

“As a country that had a cricket team before it had a government, Australia has always rejoiced in the magic of sporting success and its ability to make a person forget that genuinely important things exist. If there’s one thing that Australians pride themselves on living vicariously through, it’s sport: some consider it an even better expression of Australian identity than warfare.”
― Ben Pobjie, Error Australis: the reality recap of Australian history

“The main aim of the assault on the Dardanelles was to dig a series of trenches in which to die in enormous numbers over the course of a painfully protracted stalemate. In this, the allies were spectacularly successful.”
― Ben Pobjie, Error Australis: the reality recap of Australian history

“The identity of the first discoverer of gold at Bendigo is disputed: some say it was stationmaster’s wife Margaret Kennedy; some say it was shepherd Ben Hall; some say it was a roaming band of mischievous leprechauns.”
― Ben Pobjie, Error Australis: the reality recap of Australian history

“Many men would have been ruined by the events that transpired on the Bounty, but William Bligh was not many men: in fact, most experts agree that he was, at most, one.”
― Ben Pobjie, Error Australis: the reality recap of Australian history

“Cook’s travels paved the way for the British settlement of the southern land: in particular, the lush surrounds of Botany Bay, which Cook judged the ideal place to build an airport.”
― Ben Pobjie, Error Australis: the reality recap of Australian history