Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast.

This week coming to you from our Book of the Year 2018 tour live in Britain.

My name is Dash Schreiber and I'm sitting here with Annotzzynski, Andrew Hunter Murray,

and James Harkin.

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

from the last seven days and in a particular order, here we go.

Starting with fact number one, and that's my fact this week, my fact is Australia's

first police force was made up of Australia's 12 best-behaved convicts.

Wow, it's weird you didn't do this fact when we actually were in Australia then.

Yeah.

And it's weird that we hope to go back again.

So this is because when they got there, the first fleets that went out to Australia,

they were very under-prepared.

They barely brought any agricultural equipment.

They sort of arrived and just went, OK, we just need to make two.

So they had a few people like the Royal Navy who were out there, the British Royal Navy,

who were trying to police a few things, but that wasn't their job,

and it's not what they were doing.

So they said, we need a police force, and they realized we have no police.

So they looked around and went, OK, who are the best-behaved convicts that we've got here?

They found these 12 people, and they're like, would you be the police?

And they were like, yeah, of course.

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