For we are young and free, the brilliant second line of the Advance Australia Fair, (the national anthem of Australia) is a proud and true cry of the state of the nation, barely two hundered years old, and already throwing off the shackles of the colonial and convict past.
Maybe young but we've certainly made our mark on the world from inventions such as the black box flight recorder, electric drill, latex gloves to wi-fi.
From the country that pioneered the secret ballot, Australia is a place of great civil and personal rights, othere countries in the world have a great gap between the haves and the have nots, but Australia has great social equality - that's true freedom.