Built on the wealth of the 19th-century gold rush in the state of Victoria, Melbourne, as the state capital, was for long Australia's pre-eminent city.
"In supporting Putin in exchange for receiving material and financial support from the state, these people are supporting a system built on taking wealth and property from others".
These two combined processes allowed Christianity to move from a counterculture based around an ideology of renunciation of worldly goods to an institutional infrastructure built on corporate wealth.
The world she depicts is one in which a speech before Parliament may be fuelled by wine; unionists plot to create financial panic, should reform fail to pass; and the social scene, built on enormous wealth, is marked by "the gossiping of the hostesses contributing the soprano voices to the choir of rumbling political basses.
Any halfway serious investigation of the relationships between our nations and regions will end up showing how much of Britain's business model is built on taking wealth and power from across the country – and handing it to a small cabal of financiers and businesspeople in central London.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund director Stephen Heintz said dryly that "everyone noted the irony" that a foundation built on oil wealth would now be leading the charge out of fossil fuel.
[My conservative readers: Please close your eyes for the next sentence.] The State of Israel was established in 1948 as a socialist nation, built on the wealth-sharing principles of its treasured agrarian collectives, known commonly as kibbutzim.
For example, whites have been better able than blacks to build and pass on wealth as a result of the 1944 GI Bill, redlining, and other forms of discrimination around homeownership.
Devji argues that nations are built not on wealth and power but rather on an "idea".
This is immensely exciting, and our involvement as the NHS sets out on this new journey provides the platform to build on a wealth of the learning from social care.
