From coast to coast it is a huge stretch of unremarkable, brown swathe of scrub. Now this sounds a lot worse than it really is. The space in Australia is vast. In the outback the space between towns is so huge that you could cheerfully drop a couple of European countries into it without anyone being the slightest bit wiser. This immeasurable public space adds up to an equally enormous personal space.
People respect one and another to a large extent.
Australia doesn't suffer the same class prejudices that beset the British or the similar capitalist discrimination that Americans suffer under. This is absolutely correct. In Australia if you ride in the back of a taxi that means that you think you're too good to talk to the driver. That doesn't mean we don't like high-achievers. Paradoxically our champion sportsmen and women and the top business leaders all become cult heroes, but only when they display their ordinary roots.