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Gustaf
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« on: December 11, 2011, 01:39:55 PM »
This is a bit time-frame dependent. Australia was the richest country in the world a century ago, so in that context they haven't done all that great.
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« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2011, 08:07:29 AM »
Quote from: I'm spinning a Platypus, get out of my way on December 11, 2011, 09:38:11 PM
Quote from: Gustaf on December 11, 2011, 01:39:55 PM
This is a bit time-frame dependent. Australia was the richest country in the world a century ago, so in that context they haven't done all that great.

...and a hundred years before that, we were two penal colonies and a bunch of aborigines.

That's still true. And don't be racist, Hugh.
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