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> [“Australia's distance from Europe was probably only tolerable because it had strategic commodities which England, threatened by changing European alliances, might some day be unable to produce in the northern hemisphere. Flax was the first conqueror — a hollow conqueror…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-blainey/australia-s-distance-from-europe-was-probably-only-tolerable-because/)

[Geoffrey Blainey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-blainey/)

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