Who do they think we are?

Politicians imagine the nation

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  • Published 20180501
  • ISBN: 9781925603323
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Each Australian has both sexes, and if a child happens to be born with only one, they kill it as a monster… They average about eight feet in height… In some areas they are found with an extra pair of arms coming out their hips, thinner but just as long as the other pair; these they can extend at will and thereby grip more tightly than the others.

Gabriel de Foigny, The Southern Land, Known (1676)

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