Backbencher

From Waffa Wagga in New South Wales was an interesting lecture, I thought. He talked about many things that is perceived by Australians. Australia is a country with middle class values, with that he talked of the rise of the middle class. He talked of the settlement and its goals that were set. There was a transfer of cultures of 18th century British to this land during the time period of the settlement. There was a desire to aquire an economy with good exports. They thought that the nation had to be united in order to be a nation with Australian Federation, and also with this comes the birth of a new nation and an independant Australia. In the 1920s he states that there was concern with the common wealth concept, with the maintanace of the petty capitalism. In the Post World War II era, there was a recovery from the depression in the 1930s. In this period they had a mentality that they needed to shake off government controls on things and embrace car consumerism. Large sums of money both private and public went into such things as the housing sector.
I thought this lecture was pretty neat concidering that it was 5am over where he was and it was 2pm where we were at the time. It is always interesting what other culture are doing and how they prosper in daily life. I wonder what it would be like to be in one of there classes down there?