The Lucky Country

I love the cricket probably as much as Hawke. But I'm not a big beard drinker. And so the idea of sculling a pint at the SCG certainly wouldn't come naturally to me. Let's see me more as a mango-dacary man. It'd be great to farewell him tomorrow, the day this podcast goes out. A friend of mine in Oxford just organised a commemoration for him there. Obviously the yard glass is the central religious icon of the Hawke experience. I don't think anyone can ever do that again. We seem to have become a country of small ideas and are comfortable and complacent about how small those ideas can become. Of