It’s hardly surprising that Doris Day’s jaunty homage to Marcus Aurelius ‘Que sera, sera’ was one of the 1956’s best-selling records in Australia. This was, after all, a time when the future of most Australians looked particularly rosy. Even after the publication of the book which argued that our collective good fortune might not last forever, only those who actually read The Lucky Country saw the irony of the title, and up to the end of the last century, the closest most ordinary Australians got to political prognostication was saying, ‘She’ll be right’ – a phrase which (more irony) is...
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