Australia Is a Lucky Country, Right?

We're rich, unbelievably. Where's the money coming from? I have economist friends who would prefer this answer. If you asked the layman, they would say we had a resources boom. We actually have it within ourselves to be the best country on paper and just categorically excellent. Um, so we, we call ourselves lucky country. Now he meant it as an insult. How? No, I had no idea.