The Real AUSTRALIA.

AUSTRALIA -- Social conditions; AUSTRALIANS; RELIGION & state; NEW South Wales -- History; ATTITUDE (Psychology)

Offers an Australian's perspective on his country as the 2000 Sydney Olympics approach. Opinion that Australia and its inhabitants are misperceived by the United States; The different origins of the people in Australia and in the U.S.; Sydney's enduring embrace of the disreputable; The secular nature of Australian society compared with the U.S.; Assertion that Australians are realists, not idealists; Other contrasting characteristics of Australians and their U.S. counterparts.