Practicality has an interesting comment:
We are one of the few societies that made it through the 20th century as a free country choosing it's governments by popular democratic means. The list is indeed short. Not many more than Australia, Canada, NZ, the USA, Switzerland. Britain doesn't even make that list because elections were suspended for 'the duration' of WW2.I did not know that about Britain. The morality of democracy is very strong in Australia and it is good we can lay claim to a contiguous voting record.
