Nitpicking Frank Welsh's history of Australia

I just finished reading Frank Welsh's new book, Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land.

I liked it. It was comprehensive, beginning with early European exploration of Australia's coasts (Welsh, citing the lack of written records about the Aborigines, touched only very lightly on Australia's history before European contact), and running up to Australia's defeat by England in the November 2003 Rugby World Cup. I think it has improved my understanding of Australia.

But it could have used some closer editing. There are several small errors that I noticed. In one place, Welsh writes that Britain joined the European Economic Community (now the European Union) in 1971. Wrong, it was 1973. In another spot, he refers to the elections of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in 1979; Reagan was elected in 1980. He wrote that the ozone hole over the Antarctic was caused by global warming when actually, it is due to destruction of ozone by chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). And finally, Welsh wrote that it had been fourteen years ("fourteen," not "14") between visits to Australia by President Lyndon Johnson (1967, for PM Harold Holt's funeral) and by President George H. W. Bush in 1991.

Sloppy editing perhaps, but it makes me wonder if there were errors that I simply don't know about lurking in this otherwise impressive and useful book.