22 May

"She'll be right" is sold as some great Australian laid-back attitude. I don't think it's that, I think it's the way Australia avoids thinking. It's a type of fatalism - if we have a hard problem, it's easier to ignore it. Ironically Aboriginal Australia was/is a culture that put thought at the centre of what it did. The greatest and longest-lasting civilisation of all time was trashed in just 200 years by yob-culture, which values booze, and sees thinking as the opposite to 'having a fun time'.