Australia has lost, perhaps for ever, its happy sense of security as a relatively isolated country.

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Our bad behavior spending spree was gleefully enabled by a wallet full of credit cards and bankers ever so happy to endlessly re-finance your house for amounts exceeding its market value.

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"I'm particularly happy with the 31, 000 crowd, we're absolutely delighted, it's our biggest ever crowd for Romania, " he said.

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