Lucky Country

British

noun

slang a jocular name for Australia

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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

"In the lucky style we have never 'earned' our democracy. We simply went along with some British habits," Horne wrote in his 1976 follow-up, Death of a 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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