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Australian Notes

Australian notes

26 February 2022

9:00 AM

26 February 2022

9:00 AM

Why on earth are we stopping people who want to work from working?

I used to work at a community newspaper where I met some pretty interesting characters. One of the particularly eccentric ones, among a group of older workers who came in to fold newspapers on distribution day, used to pack up her things at odd times long before her colleagues.

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