“the compulsion to buy Yankee trash”
Please list the great accomplishments of Oz in the modern world compared to America.
I’ll start.
Australia
1. Vegemite
2. Bondi Beach lifeguards
3. Roo bars
4. Crocodile Dundee
.5. Steve Irwin
6. Extreme prejudice of the “darkies”. Even to this day.
7. Holden automobiles. Never heard of outside OZ.
8. Fosters beer
America
1. The greatest achievements in the Industrial Revolution. Standard Oil, US Steel, Ford, GM, Edison Electric.
2. Apple
4. Microsoft
5. NASA. 1st man on the moon.
6. Military Industrial Complex. For better or worse.
7. Salk Institute
Just to name a few.
You would think one would be more appreciated for the effort put out to keep you from speaking Japanese The “Second Pearl Harbor” at Darwin was for a reason.
Those “Yankee Trash “ diesel submarines based out of Fremantle did a fine job of keeping the Jap transports from disembarking troops onto the wide open WA shoreline.
It would have been game over.