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Join the room“Distance is the continual theme and has been one of the main conditioning factors in Australian history. She was distant and dependent, a continent swinging on a long chain in antipodean darkness.”
“[At the time of Federation] Most Australians were still strangers in a new land. The land was only half won.”
“I have just finished writing a full-sized novel; title, Such is Life; scenery, and northern Vic.; temper, democratic; bias, offensively Australian.”
“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”
“Surely what the Americans have done by war, Australians can bring about in peace.”
“Australia began her political history as a crouching serf kept in subjection by the whip of a ruffian gaoler, and her progress, so far, consists merely in a change of masters.”
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Australia é um cavalo de corrida Thoroughbred aposentado, criado na Irlanda, e garanhão reprodutor, mais conhecido por vencer o Epsom Derby de 2014. Como um potro de dois anos em 2013, ele venceu duas de suas três corridas, causando uma impressão muito favorável ao vencer o Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Trial Stakes, e era altamente considerado por seu treinador Aidan O'Brien. Em maio de 2014, ele terminou em terceiro lugar atrás de Night of Thunder e Kingman nas 2000 Guineas antes de vencer o Epsom Derby em 7 de junho. Ele subsequentemente venceu o Irish Derby e o International Stakes antes de ser derrotado por The Grey Gatsby no Irish Champion Stakes. Sua carreira nas corridas foi encerrada por uma lesão em outubro de 2014. Ele está no Coolmore stud.
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