THE LUCKY COUNTRY

The term “The Lucky Country” is the title of a book about this country, by an eminent Australian author and social critic, Donald Horne, published in 1964, which still holds good even today after so many years. For Australia is now one of the world’s most alluring places to visit as well as to live, with its major city, Sydney, having been named as the world’s best city as a tourist destination, and Melbourne, the second largest city, close behind. Both are today sophisticated and exciting places to visit as well as to work and live. As also are other major State capitals, Brisbane in Queensland, Perth in Western Australia, Adelaide in South Australia, Darwin, in the Northern Territory, as well as Canberra, the nation’s capital, in the Australian Capital Territory. More information about all of these States can be found here.

Australia is the world’s only island continent whose isolation is yet another of its many attractions, with no borders near to any other country or nation. Its great and still growing wealth emanates from its abundance of many natural resources that have been and still being used in its amazing development, particularly in minerals, iron ores especially, in recent times, along with great quantities of natural gas and some significant amounts of oil as well. The original sources of Australia’s initial wealth was mainly in wool, from sheep, as well as cattle and their grazing and raising for beef, along with a wide range of agriculture, of which wheat today is still amongst its major sources of export incomes, as well as for feeding the still relatively small national population, which has only recently passed 20,000,000 people. Of whom the early and original inhabitants over the past two hundred years had been mostly British as well as some Europeans, but today Australians proudly proclaim themselves to be the world’s most multicultural country of all, with more than 210 different nationalities and ethnic groups all being well represented and part of today’s Australians. Starting shortly after World War Two, when migrants were sought and brought, initially from the UK but then also from many parts of Europe, then continuing since the sixties and strongly onwards with the arrival of people from all continents and countries, with more and more numbers arriving in the hundreds of thousands every year, as migrants making their new homes here, in what many say is still the land of greatest opportunities and also the last of the Earth’s once many paradise places.

Australia has a democratic political system, with a Westminster style of Government that has brought great political stability regardless of changes in ruling parties from time to time, adding to its underlying strengths as well as economic and social wealth as well as continuing growth. Indeed, as this site opens up to visitors and viewers the country is engaged in another of the normal elections that are held every three years, the results of which seem unlikely to bring about very many changes, since there are such great similarities of policies between the two opposing major parties, Liberal and Labour. The results are unlikely to have much, if any effects upon migration, especially now with the dire shortage of skilled workers and the numbers of jobs vacant and available for anyone who wants to work and do well, who has some of the many skills that are sought throughout the country.
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