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The Lucky Country No Longer?

The Lucky Country No Longer?

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Philip Bowring
Sep 06, 2008
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Outside a clutch of small oil states, few countries beat Australia when it comes to complacency. A decade and a half of outperformance of most of the OECD members plus direct links into the China-India resource bonanza has convinced most of Australia that whatever the problems elsewhere in the world, the problems at home will be small by comparison.

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