Sorry man, I have to disagree. We’ve done corporate scumbaggery for a long time and it comes from ol’ blighty as much as the US. Guys like Alan Bond have been around a while.
On the other point, it’s got nothing to do with helmets… helmets save lives, despite some guy’s opinion on a TED talk. Australia’s obesity has more to do with laziness, drinking culture, widespread car use and a general presumption that everything should have meat in it, always.
The one thing we have started to import from America is privatised prisons. Serco, while a British company, not American, runs all of our “detention centres” (read: refugee punishment camps) and some of our prisons. Their business mimics that of US privatised prisons where the goal is to cut costs everywhere possible to maximise profits for shareholders.
