What did Donald say?

The phrase the "Lucky Country" coined by the likeable and even reluctant academic in his book of the same name in 1964 is indeed one of the most coined phrases and also our most misunderstood.
Horne, who died yesterday, was making a plea that Australians get their act together. That we had for too long relied on our "luck"to see us through. He saw, what we ourselves may never have fully appreciated, that you have to do more than rely on luck.
This lesson still needs some learning. We still scrimp and cut corners on future investment. Though we can glibly say that children and youth are our greatest resource, why are our the education systems starved of money.
It may be an economic rationalist strategy but it is hardly good future planning.
With an eye for future welfare we should be pouring resources into all sectors of education not starving them. In 2020 it would be great for the world to think of Australia as "The Clever Country" knowing that we are the best educated and the most prepared to meet the challenges of science and technology.
Instead we continue to promote dumb luck. What else is this posturing to ensure that we have convinced ourselves that it is morally acceptable to put our eggs in the bubbling basket of nuclear energy. Conveniently advantaging the "good luck"we have of possessing 40% of the world's uranium resources.
The Clever Country would be responding to the challenge of how we escape from the slavery to luck that is uranium and the inevitable disaster it will reek upon the world.
In 2020 it would be great for the world to thinkof Australia as "The Energy Country"and see that we have really developed wind and solar technology, that advances with the hydrogen and battery celled cars have really made a difference.
But, have we heard Horne's plea? It doesn't seem like it.We are indeed a lucky country but it is no way to plan for the future.