For the record, I am Australian and this is the first thing I've ever heard about the American Bicentennial.
And yeah, we don't really cover any US history at all in schools. It's basically "America had it's revolution, so they had to send convicts to Australia" and that's it until the World Wars.
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Date: 2011-03-01 03:45 am (UTC)And yeah, we don't really cover any US history at all in schools. It's basically "America had it's revolution, so they had to send convicts to Australia" and that's it until the World Wars.