So, too, was Donald Horne's caustic polemic, The Lucky Country, which is arguably post-war Australia's most influential work of non-fiction.
Since the game went professional, Wales have claimed just three wins over the Tri-Nations sides, one against a weakened South Africa in the game to open the Millennium Stadium in 1999, two against transitional post-World Cup Australia teams in Cardiff in Wales' Grand Slam years of 2005 and 2008.
Horne serves up the left's critique of Australia - he captures the stultifying conservatism of the post-war years for a start.
But Johnson has a get-out clause which enables him to leave his post with Australia at the end of the tournament.
Mr. Obama is using a speech tomorrow during his stopover in Australia, America's most consistent ally in the post-WWII period, to announce a phased-in increase in America's permanent military presence in Australia, a step-up in joint exercises with Australian naval forces, and increased access of U.S. naval vessels and aircraft to the port at Darwin, which is beyond the reach of Chinese missiles.
The Americans got all they could handle from Australia, which led at halftime, 47-43, after dominating the post and exploiting gaps in Team USA's perimeter defense.
Magritas has come a long way since he arrived in Australia more than 60 years ago, a poor, 16-year-old post-war immigrant from mainland Greece.
Now more than a dozen years into his post-basketball career, having already made a professional-wrestling tour of Australia and spent some time on "Celebrity Rehab, " he's testing his skills as a diplomat.
Australia, which has a lower house elected on the basis of first-past-the-post in which the prime minister sits, and an upper house elected on a proportional system, is a good parallel.
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