Word: mateship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Australia is the most urbanized country in the world. Eighty per cent of its people live in its cities. Much as we Americans cling to a self-image of rugged individualism while going to work every day for IBM, Australians see themselves as tough rural types bonded by the 'mateship' of the bush. The reality is different. Huddled together in the cities, they turn their backs on the inhospitable and incorruptible land. The ones who choose to live in the wild become the crazies about whom the bush ballads are written, or else they become very strong. But as this...