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No light on the Hill

On the throbbing background of Australia’s greatest mining town

30 November 2024

9:00 AM

30 November 2024

9:00 AM

It was a huge cultural shock to move as a new graduate from the upper north shore of Sydney to Broken Hill in 1968. The locals were proud miners, staunch unionists and fiercely independent in an isolated part of the country neglected by the capital cities. Nothing changes. It then was a union town that exerted huge power in the New South Wales Labor movement.

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