That is around the time Les Wheaton's great-grandfather was embarking on an Australian way of outback life that is now coming to an end.

ECONOMIST: Australia

It begins with his near-fatal car crash in 1999 on a fishing trip in the outback of Australia, an event that crippled his walking for the rest of his life, and then flashes back to his upbringing in a prominent Sydney family, which educated him at Jesuit schools and sharpened his antiauthoritarian edge.

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