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Flat White

Bring back those dark, satanic mills

21 September 2018

5:54 PM

21 September 2018

5:54 PM

Once upon a time – actually, not that long ago, think the seventies — we actually had reasonably good, working factories that employed people to actually make and manufacture things like aircraft, weapons for the Department of Defence, military uniforms and blankets made from Australian wool.

Under the Fraser government, Australia’s factories, one by one, were closed.

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