More than 20 years of living in Australia has caused me to think that most Australians may now never really master the basic principles of communal living — especially those principles involving a certain generosity of spirit.
To provide a little background to this subject, until relatively recently Holland had much the same population as Australia — although one confined to a very small country, half the size of Tasmania.
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