Proponents of Utopian progress have devoted endless time to pursuits intent on discarding tradition, reality and practicality.
Legacies of their myopic view of today abound along the narrow tracks they would have us travel, pitted with signposts of contradiction and ignorance, trend and emotion.
In the 1960s progress was to demolish edifices built to last during the Victorian era and those that survived, stripped of their ornate verandahs all because fang-dangled automobile contraptions had taken off in popularity and drivers skilled in bush paddocks and dirt roads struggled to avoid verandah posts of main street shops.
It was also a time when most...
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