Abstract:
Australia leads the world in many areas – some good and some … well, some may be best not to jump up and down about. Which ones stand out for you? For me: Longest Surviving Culture stands out, something to be check-this-out proud of. Unfortunately, the sustainability of that boast is threatened by our mistreatment of Indigenous people.We are really very good at digging iron ore, lead and zinc out of the ground and shipping it out – but I’m not sure how sustainable that is either or whether it’s really something worth boasting about. Australia can also claim to be a recent world leader in house-price growth as well as time spent per capita on social networking sites (it IS a big country after all).
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