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A great British legacy: how will it play out today? : Comments
By Chris Lewis, published 11/6/2012When you look at the British legacy it is not hard to understand why Britain has more ticker than most.
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This is unfair. If Australia was 'subservient' to Britain, it was a voluntary, mutually beneficial form of subservience to the "mother country." Australia was a settler outpost of Britain, a "British community in the South Seas" as Prime Minister John Curtin once put it, so it's only natural the country remained under Britain's political, cultural and economic influence into the post-Federation era. It was not as if Britain coerced or forcibly held Australia under its rule. Rather, it was a mutually beneficial arrangement: Australia provided the natural resources, while Britain provided the people, capital, institutions, security and export markets.