There is a delicate balance between shielding people and encouraging them, and the USA perhaps went too far in one direction and Australia in the other. The Soviet Union, born in 1917 and influenced a little by the exciting Australian and New Zealand experiments, would eventually show how the umbrella, if too big and cumbersome, exposed people far more than it protected them.


A Shorter History of Australia (1994)

Geoffrey Blainey Quotes

There is a delicate balance between shielding people and encouraging them, and the USA perhaps went too far in one direction and Australia in the...

There is a delicate balance between shielding people and encouraging them, and the USA perhaps went too far in one direction and Australia in the...

There is a delicate balance between shielding people and encouraging them, and the USA perhaps went too far in one direction and Australia in the...

There is a delicate balance between shielding people and encouraging them, and the USA perhaps went too far in one direction and Australia in the...