Sounds like maybe some kiwis are in denial?
Could simply be many don't know the actual documented
details of British colonial history and if one were to quiz
Australians on it, you would also find them lacking such
knowledge. Some long held common beliefs about
James Cook are plain wrong, yet they perpetuate.
eg: Some seem to think Cook sailed into Botany Bay
and claimed Australia for the British Crown.
Or ask them when and where Cook and Phillip first
had British colors raised and what flag was raised
by them and I bet most don't know.
But hey we are talking about common folk who think
Breaker Morant was Australian coz that's the lasting
impression they got from a directors artistic license
script.
But what can one expect when even the Oz PM
gives the wrong impression of history to the nation
by sending the replica of the HMS bark Endeavour
on a circumnavigation of the continent despite the
fact neither the Endeavour or Cook having ever
undertaken such a voyage.
