As you might expect, this is particularly noticeable when you are resident in America. It doesn't have coups, recklessly overfish, arm disagreeable despots, grow coca in provocative quantities or throw its weight around in a brash and unseemly manner.īut even allowing for all this, our neglect of Australian affairs is curious. From time to time it sends us useful things - opals, merino wool, Errol Flynn, the boomerang - but nothing we can't actually do without. Its population, about 19 million, is small by world standards - China grows by a larger amount each year - and its place in the world economy is consequently peripheral as an economic entity, it is about the same size as Illinois. Australia is, after all, mostly empty and a long way away. The fact is, of course, we pay shamefully scant attention to our dear cousins Down Under - though not entirely without reason, I suppose.
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