[HN Gopher] Sir Douglas Nicholls
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       Sir Douglas Nicholls
        
       Author : adrian_mrd
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-04-29 12:06 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | wombatmobile wrote:
       | > Nicholls' predecessor as governor, nuclear physicist Mark
       | Oliphant, confidentially wrote to the state government expressing
       | concerns about the appointment. He said there were "grave
       | dangers" involved, as "there is something inherent in the
       | personality of the Aborigine which makes it difficult for him to
       | adapt fully to the ways of the white man".
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       | That opinion is not nuclear physics. Or science.
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       | Is it?
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       | What force propels that meme, and why or how does it endure?
        
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