I can't think of another country that I like better than Australia. They are far more loyal than any NATO ally, including Canada. I can't compliment them enough. A truly great people; I just wished there were more like them around the rest of the globe.....
re#12: I think part of the reason they are is because they share so much with us. Huge land mass seperated from others by oceans, started from basically a hodge podge of cast offs, original primary ties to a relatively democratized intelligent country- England.
They also have that same "cut from the frontier" spirit and attitude. There can not be more like them from around the world because the "seeds and the soil" are different for any other countries than our's.
What that they were not so geographically isolated they would have been even more similar in population, GDP, and power to us. It is nice though to have them as our friend and allie, probably the best we have.