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Flat White

Covid and the new class divides

3 August 2021

5:10 PM

3 August 2021

5:10 PM

I fought class identity for most of my life. For some reason, I believed it was something that held people from working-class backgrounds down. My father was so steeped in class identity that he often corrected me when I dreamed of greater things. “Never forget where you come from darlin,’” he would say in the cockney accent that he was loathe to abandon, even after a lifetime in Australia.

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