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The shame of Australia's Olympic medal haul
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Now we are at the other extreme with Australia ranking fourth amongst all countries for gold medals behind the USA, China and Japan (although for total medals we also rank behind France and Great Britain, but ahead of Japan.
Most of the countries we are beating have significantly larger populations, so this is huge outperformance. But what does it say about us as a nation?
The USA is 15 times larger than us and China is 54 times larger, but they've only won around twice as many gold medals each.
We might be beating them in sport, but everywhere else they are handing our backsides to us.
This wouldn't be the case if we put the same energy and ambition into economic pursuits, using the same meritocratic and evidence-based approach we use to produce world class athletes. Instead of that we are increasingly living in a world where merit and hard work are dirty words and everyone expects a gold medal with the Albanese government being the epitome of that.
The federal government will bask in the glory of the Olympics at the same time as they take us down the low road of decreasing national wealth. Ultimately we'll end up with no gold in the economy, and no gold at the Olympics, because only rich economies do well there.