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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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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

In 1964 though, despite being unoptimistically received by its publisher, The Lucky Country clearly touched a nerve with the Australian public.

From BBC Oct. 31, 2014

"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

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