What ere they drinking when they came up with names like Emu? Or Wombat? Or Kangaroo Flat? Or Kangaroo Point?

Or Alligator Creek? WTF?

What Britain stole from Australia was Lebensraum (living space), a great benefit to the British else extreme claustrophobia and enochlophobia would have seen them return to warring on each other.

After arriving in Australia, the ungrateful sods then set about pining for 'ome and, in total disregard for reality, the names of the objectives of their homing instincts was stamped on many unlike places. Thus the locatity of Loxton in the Murray Mallee to some poor suffering soul resembled Loxton in Somerset.

The Aqueducts?

All right ... all right ... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order ... what have the Poms ever done for us?

Shown that all the above are vital when control of population growth has been lost.

The 2 Liverpools are sooo alike LOL
Other than in department stores what ever happened to Manchester?

I think that answers itself.

The IRA gave it a facelift

There are a few (perhaps Manchester was not upper most on the pining scale):
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of which COUNTY OF MANCHESTER is especially poignant.

It's been rebuilt since

Must exist only as a mirage in some poor pining Poms mind, perhaps deranged by dehydration, because there was no Manchester apparent when I passed through the area two weeks ago.

Perhaps dreaming of a long, cool, slaking drink:

Drink yes pom NO

Are you sugesting the County of Manchester was named by an Irishman dreaming that the British would build a city complete with canals so he could, one day, blow it up?

Yer weird

But don't you find people call them all bandaids?

Those big bags of tasty shredded cheese sometimes look like the shredding and packing took place 6 to 12 months ago.