The fact that Australia had escaped devastation in the two world wars and the countries of Europe and Asia kept importing raw materials as they rebuilt their economies made postwar Australia an economic powerhouse second only to the United States and Canada. A nation's strength affects the level of research in it, and a number of first-rate European professors and researchers came to Australia at the time "all on their own hook."
由於澳洲未曾受到上半世紀兩次世界大戰的洗禮；受戰爭蹂躪的歐亞非各國又不斷從澳洲進口原料，以重建家園，使戰後的澳洲儼然成為僅次於北美的經濟大國。國力影響研究水準，當時不少歐陸的一流教師、研究人員「不請自來」。