ABSTRACT
The phrase [the lucky country] has been used to describe our weather, our lifestyle and our history. It is often invoked to describe the nation’s good fortune, from gold booms to economic booms. Recently, our geographic isolation from the world’s trouble spots has again seen us labeled the lucky country. It has been paraphrased by politicians-‘the clever country’—and when Kylie Minogue sings we’re ‘lucky, lucky, lucky’, we all know what she means. How ironic then that Horne’s irony was totally overlooked!
