Sussan Ley compares First Fleet to Elon Musk's Mars mission in Australia Day speech
ABCDeputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley has compared the arrival of the First Fleet with Elon Musk's efforts to build a colony on Mars in an Australia Day speech delivered at a local church service. Addressing the St Matthew's Australia Day mass in Albury, Ms Ley insisted that British settlers did not land at Sydney Cove "to destroy or to pillage", but in an experiment to establish a new society. "In what could be compared to Elon Musk's Space X's efforts to build a new colony on Mars, men in boats arrived on the edge of the known world to embark on that new experiment," Ms Ley told the church service. The landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove on January 26, 1788, has become a contentious anniversary, with Australia Day celebrated but also marked with "Invasion Day" rallies in cities across the country.
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