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Lucky Country

British  

noun

  1. slang a jocular name for Australia

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Australia calls itself "the Lucky Country", he added.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2023

This is a big one for the host country, after a hard few years in the formerly Lucky Country.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2022

And he is optimistic that the interventions of the tech-friendly prime minister can only help Australia go from being the Lucky Country to one that makes its own luck.

From Economist • Jan. 7, 2016

We'll never know if he would still consider his homeland to be the Lucky Country.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2014

So, too, was Donald Horne's caustic polemic, The Lucky Country, which is arguably post-war Australia's most influential work of non-fiction.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2011

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