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Simon Collins

Simon Collins

1 June 2019

9:00 AM

1 June 2019

9:00 AM

Like many Speccie readers I’m old enough to remember when men smoked pipes on buses and tradies whistled. I can also recall my parents using the phrases ‘It’s a free country’, ‘You’re entitled to your opinion’ and ‘There ought to be a law against it’ on a regular basis, and settling disputes between me and my brothers with the adage ‘Sticks and stones might break your bones but names will never hurt you’.

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