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Australian Notes

Australian Notes

12 December 2013

3:00 PM

12 December 2013

3:00 PM

Hal Colebatch — lawyer, historian, poet, novelist — tells the story that, when speaking a few years ago to a Rotary Club in Perth, he mentioned in passing the damage done to the war effort during the second world war by strikes in essential industries. None of his audience of businessmen and professionals had ever heard of it.

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