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Burke Wills Expedition
🕑 Added 2021-01-26 16:11:22 +0000 UTChttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Wills_expedition
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Only just listened to this ep. Love it. I was listening to it as I worked just outside of Ballarat (Victoria) drilling for gold. Ballarat was the epicentre of the Aussie gold rush and briefly the richest city in the world. We here in Oz have a proud tradition of venerating tragedies, failures, imbeciles and arseholes and Bourke was no exception. In my childhood a giant memorial statue of Bourke and Wills dominated the top of Bourke street in Melbourne (now moved). But a common old term for an incompetant moron in Australia is a "Bourke". Sooo, there's that. Also, I'm sure pedants have already said this but, Victoria is a state, not a city. And it is Wills, not Willis... Ok I'm done. ππ
Andrew Lindsay
What you talkinββbout Willis?!!!?
