I can't believe the Australian state exists, as in the "concept" of the Australian state. The idea that a bunch of people from a faraway archipelago in a completely different climate would come to annihilate the original people of an entire continent on the opposite side of the planet that could hardly be more different than their homeland is nuts. The whole thing just feels like some kind of fever dream of historic fiction, but yet it exists. What are they even doing down there? It's like if Fordlandia in the Amazon rainforest actually worked out. So incongruent