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Flat White

Fair go, mate!

25 April 2022

2:00 PM

25 April 2022

2:00 PM

The first time I heard the phrase ‘fair go!’ I was a young reporter new to Australia from Britain and needed a translation.

The editor of the Narrandera Argus had taken me along to a meeting with some heavies in the local shire council and he had used the expression. In the street afterward, I asked him to explain what it meant.

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