Australia and South Africa: What is the difference?

[Occiput in Starlight]

Wilbur Smith depicted the British and the Dutch in southern Africa - from 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck established a supply camp at Table Bay, to the 1980s and newly independent Zimbabwe.

Australians can be modeled as halfway distant between Smith's two depictions.

[Hellenas]

Australia is better.

[Occiput in Starlight]

Smith's protagonists are all ethnic British southern Africans, but his greatest characters are Boers!