Perhaps no other city makes one recall as fondly the spirit of the 1980s in Australia as Fremantle. It was from here, famously, that our successful America’s Cup challenge was launched. Even today walking around the place one can’t help but hum Men and Work nostalgically and imagine the ghosts of the go-getting entrepreneurs of that era hurrying by, eager to take advantage of a rapidly liberalising economy.
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