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> Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adap
by quink 6y ago
> Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.
- Donald Horne, 1964
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoI think this describes other commonwealth countries, like here in Canada, as well. Likely an outcrop of former-colonial mentality. The history of leadership here when we still had a mother country was one of governorship and colonial administration. The towns and streets are named after them. Frankly the attitude towards politics has persisted. It has its positives (stability and a relative lack of dysfunction) and its problems. In Ontario as well we have this kind of problem with state-capture by industries all over. Regulations and land zoning are in many ways geared for the already-haves rather than a level playing field. An example being the wine industry regulation here.
- kridsdale1 6y agoThe residential land in Quebec is still using the Seigneurial (feudal) pattern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigneurial_system_of_New_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigneurial_system_of_New_Fran...
- chris_wot 6y agoAustralia is a vastly different country in 2020 than it was in 1964.