David Hunt
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Sydney, Australia
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Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)
11 editions
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2013
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True Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #2)
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2016
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Girt Nation (The Unauthorised History of Australia #3)
5 editions
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2021
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“Captain James Kirk was named after Captain James Cook and the USS Enterprise was named after the HMS Endeavour. Star Trek’s catchphrase “to boldly go where no man has gone beforeâ€� was inspired by Cook’s journal entry “ambition leads me â€� farther than any other man has been before meâ€�. Enterprise and Endeavour, the first and last space shuttles, were named after the ships of Kirk and Cook. There are bound to be other links between Captain Cook, Star Trek and the US Space Program and some Australian university will no doubt award a grant to explore this issue of undisputed national significance.”
― Girt
― Girt
“The first colonial teenagers rejected their parentsâ€� values, as teenagers have done ever since Cain and Abel decided to get away from all that hippy nature stuff. They were sober, industrious and, if truth be told, not much fun. They laboured uncomplainingly in the sun, exercised in the fresh air, swam in the sea and were, on average, six inches taller than the malnourished British stock from which they had sprung. Within a single generation, the Artful Dodger had transformed into Chesty Bond.”
― Girt
― Girt
“Australia was the place to be. Unless you were black. Or a woman. Or gay. Or suspected of being Irish. Or even worse, all of the above.”
― Girt
― Girt
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“Captain James Kirk was named after Captain James Cook and the USS Enterprise was named after the HMS Endeavour. Star Trek’s catchphrase “to boldly go where no man has gone beforeâ€� was inspired by Cook’s journal entry “ambition leads me â€� farther than any other man has been before meâ€�. Enterprise and Endeavour, the first and last space shuttles, were named after the ships of Kirk and Cook. There are bound to be other links between Captain Cook, Star Trek and the US Space Program and some Australian university will no doubt award a grant to explore this issue of undisputed national significance.”
― Girt
― Girt
“The first colonial teenagers rejected their parentsâ€� values, as teenagers have done ever since Cain and Abel decided to get away from all that hippy nature stuff. They were sober, industrious and, if truth be told, not much fun. They laboured uncomplainingly in the sun, exercised in the fresh air, swam in the sea and were, on average, six inches taller than the malnourished British stock from which they had sprung. Within a single generation, the Artful Dodger had transformed into Chesty Bond.”
― Girt
― Girt

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