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The fantasy of Australians' collective powers : Comments
By Thomas Barlow, published 13/8/2007The belief that Australians are uniquely original and inventive is one of the great Australian legends. And it isn't true ...
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The matter which you pursued, Nobel prizes, would to many people be quite irrelevant, as they have no regard for a left wing subversive organisation like the Nobel foundation, much less for its awards.
Agreement on what the proposition means is the first hurdle, but possibly surmountable. Gathering all the facts for and against, and agreeing which of them may be relevant, is impossible.
We are in the domain of belief, not science.
While Leo does not have the answer either, his suggestion is probably more sensible, and workable than yours.