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08/12/14

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Originally posted by pugsley100 ↑

The original quote was,
"Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck"
an observation from 1960's Australia when we were an outpost of Mother England.
The author observed that our country was deficient in enterprise.

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When I invented the phrase in 1964 to describe Australia, I said: 'Australia is a lucky country run by second rate people who share its luck.' I didn't mean that it had a lot of material resources … I had in mind the idea of Australia as a [British] derived society whose prosperity in the great age of manufacturing came from the luck of its historical origins … In the lucky style we have never 'earned' our democracy. We simply went along with some British habits.

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Those were the days of " riding on the sheeps back" when we had no need to use foresight and today we still don't seem to need foresight such as sacking a man who was due to win the Nobel prise
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