to wonder what, culturally speaking, australia has ever given the world?

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really.
apart from neighbours, peter carey and patrick white?
anything?

If the OP has a minute, I'd be curious to see the list of Nigeria's and Poland's contributions to world culture that she refers to. Obviously there are many but it does seem a bit odd that she is very au fait with the contributions of those two countries but can't come up with much for Oz.

Heath Ledger and Hugh Jackman just to look at them is enough for Australia to give