Australians love nothing so much as defeat. That is why Ricky Ponting will be seen as one of Australia's greatest sporting heroes, for being the only Australian Cricket Captain to have lost the Ashes (see below) twice. He will be compared favourably with Don Bradman who famously scored a duck in his last Test innings, thus ensuring he spectacularly failed to achieve a test average of 100 by the sliverest of margins — .06 [The Australian Broadcasting Corporation identifies so closely with his example of almost succeeding, while actually failing, that its GPO Box number is 9994 (Bradman's ultimate average of 99.94).
Australia's annual national military celebration is commemorated as a biscuit. It celebrates a massive and humiliating defeat caused by British arrogance, idiocy and bad management. That’s why we prefer English migrants above all others. They make us look less stupid.