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Stop ringing me!

How does Australia benefit from foreign call centres using Australia as a source of income totalling billions?

22 March 2014

9:00 AM

22 March 2014

9:00 AM

It was 6.30 when the phone rang and dinner had just been served.

‘Which telephone company do you represent?’ I asked.

‘How did you know?’

‘Just a wild guess.’

‘Is that you Mr Barry?’ was the follow-up question.

‘That’s my first name,’ I told her, not bothering to let her know the subtle differences between first names, Christian names, maiden names and surnames.

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Barry Cohen, a former minister in the Hawke government, was a federal Labor MP from 1969 to 1990.

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