Why Should Australia Be Rich?

Imagine this&hellip; It’s Sunday morning, and you’ve turned on the strategy game Civilization 5. A computer game where you build up a nation, turn-by-turn. By some luck, you start in Australia. Surrounded by an ocean that serves as a natural defense, you control almost 29% of the world’s iron ore, 20% of the world’s Aluminum ore, 16% of the world’s gold ore, 25% of the world’s lithium, 28% of the…