Lucky Country
Britishnoun
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In his excoriating polemic, Horne noted: "Australia is a Lucky Country run mainly by second-rate people."
From BBC ● May 15, 2022
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
The Lucky Country by Donald Horne, which came out in 1964, has gone on to become a cult classic, as well as saddling this land with an entirely misappropriated nickname.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2014
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