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Quotes from Eye on Australia: Speeches and Essays of Geoffrey Blainey — Geoffrey Blainey

born 1930 Australia

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In economics, as in politics, no national reservoir can stand the strain when everyone is turning on the taps and few are bothering to see that the catchments to the reservoir are working.

Eye on Australia: Speeches and Essays of Geoffrey Blainey (1991)

The multicultural lobby has little respect for the history of Australia between 1788 and 1950. In the eyes of multicultural supporters, Australia was a desert between 1788 and 1950 because it was populated largely by people from the British Isles and because it seemed to have a cultural unity, a homogeneity which is the very antithesis of multiculturalism.

Eye on Australia: Speeches and Essays of Geoffrey Blainey (1991)

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