…criticisms are roughly speaking true, though the quality issue is not one of them. Australians can achieve high levels of quality and precision when needed, but it depends on what's 'needed'. The book The Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd from 1960, also describes a difficulty in Australians performing economic tasks like Art that are not strictly speaking useful or tasks which have risks outside the normal business mode.…
可能是刘易斯·芒福德（Lewis Mumford）？或者帕特里克·格迪斯（Patrick Geddes）？城市规划史和城市研究学派的。要不就是写了《丑陋的澳大利亚》（the Australian Ugliness）的罗宾·博伊德（Robin Boyd）
Lewis Mumford maybe? Or Patrick Geddes? Town planning history and urban studies schools. Or Robin Boyd who wrote "the Australian Ugliness"
……这些批评大体上属实，不过质量问题倒不在其中。澳大利亚人在有需要的时候是能做到极高水平的质量和精度的，但这完全取决于什么是所谓的“需要”。罗宾·博伊德1960年出版的《丑陋的澳大利亚》一书中，也描述了澳大利亚人在从事艺术这类严格来说不算实用、或者带有常规商业模式之外风险的经济活动时所面临的困境。……
…criticisms are roughly speaking true, though the quality issue is not one of them. Australians can achieve high levels of quality and precision when needed, but it depends on what's 'needed'. The book The Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd from 1960, also describes a difficulty in Australians performing economic tasks like Art that are not strictly speaking useful or tasks which have risks outside the normal business mode.…