James Cook: “Sudden arrival of an invader from another land”
Australians are celebrating the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s arrival in Australia. Some gov’t servants know better.
A Victorian public health official has likened COVID-19 to Captain Cook’s arrival in Australia. On Thursday, the Victorian Deputy Chief Health Officer Annaliese van Diemen faced calls to resign after she compared Captain James Cook’s arrival to Botany Bay to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Dr van Diemen tweeted, “Sudden arrival of an invader from another land, decimating populations, creating terror, forces the population to make enormous sacrifices & completely change how they live in order to survive. COVID19 or Cook 1770?”
Advance Australia director Liz Storer says the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook‘s landing in Australia reminds us how the left tries to “re-write history,” something it does every single Australia Day.
Well done Captain Cook!
You sailed where no man had gone and returned!
Dr Van Dieman.
Hmm
I’ve heard that name somewhere before.
She wouldn’t be pissed off with Cook for upstaging Tasman by any chance, would she?
Sounds personal to me…
The Captain Cook Tavern was a great old pub back in my University days!
Could you imagine the shrieking Lefties now if it was still open? There would be protests outside…and a demand from the University to give it a Maori name
Rewriting history to suit their agenda. That’s what lefties do.
Those Captain Cooker pigs were a useful source of protein foe a race starved of protein.
https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19195/captain-cooker
‘This wild pig is known as a Captain Cooker, after pigs introduced to New Zealand by Captain James Cook’.
Perhaps Grant Guildford Vice Chancellor and all-round wanker of Victoria University could rename these pigs so they are less racist.
The Maori were also starved of carbohydrate. If they had had the potato, their population could have been much larger.