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>>xd+(OP)
Winston Churchill (1951–55)

Anthony Eden (1955–57)

Harold Macmillan (1957–63)

Alec Douglas-Home (1963–64)

Harold Wilson (1964–70)

Edward Heath (1970–74)

Harold Wilson (1974–76)

James Callaghan (1976–79)

Margaret Thatcher (1979–90)

John Major (1990–97)

Tony Blair (1997–07)

Gordon Brown (2007–10)

David Cameron (2010–16)

Theresa May (2016–19)

Boris Johnson (2019–22)

Liz Truss (2022 (two days ago) - current)

Quite the reign! Can't help but feel a bit sad really.

>>simons+94
Indeed she reigned for about 30% of U.S. history.

(credit for observation goes to Matt Glassman)

>>ddlath+W6
And she was queen of Australia for over 57% of its history.

>>logicc+pA
Ahh, yes, because Australia began with the whitefella.

>>markdo+Zk1
Approximately zero of the indigenous population present prior to settlement by Europeans would have identified as being Australian, or of being born in Australia, or anything like that.

Definitively, yes, Australia "began" with European settlement of the continent.

>>denkmo+Mm1
What the indigenous population identify as is irrelevant; in the present day we call that continent Australia.

>>markdo+wr1
A state cannot exist without citizens that identify as belonging to said state...

>>denkmo+5t1
Can't the term "Australia" just refer to the place on the globe? Like if someone was telling me what Antarctica looked like 50,000 years ago, I wouldn't tell them that Antarctica didn't exist back then. I'd know what they meant.

>>dorkwo+x83
"Australia's history" was a poor choice of phrase exactly because of that ambiguity. In fact it was explicitly referring to the period since 1901, which very few people would consider to be the start of "Australia's history".