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So what? It’s just a name. Australia was still here; people were living here. Who are you to definitively declare this?

Perhaps this may seem like semantics to someone who doesn’t live here but I find this sentiment at best ignorant and at worst offensive.

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Except I do live here, and it's patently ridiculous to say The Commonwealth of Australia is anything but an invention of European settlers. Of which Queen Elizabeth II was the Head of State for 57% of its existence. Which is the context of this comment thread.

It didn’t say “The Commonwealth it Australia’s existence” it said 57% of Australia’s history which I maintain is fundamentally incorrect.

However, I think there is nothing further to be gained here as we would be arguing semantics.

Common sense would dictate that GP is talking about the country not the continent, as continents typically do not have heads of state :)

While that is true, it's not typically how the phrase "Australia's history" is interpreted.

It's common for "Australia's history" to refer to pre-colonisation in addition to the last couple of hundred years.

This is almost certainly because Australians see the country and the continent as 'the same' for all intents and purposes.

The poster wasn't even referring to the last couple of 100 years, only the last 121!

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