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The Forgotten People: have they been forgotten again?

22 April 2025

12:50 AM

22 April 2025

12:50 AM

In 1942, during the height of the horrors of the second world war, the RT Hon. Robert Gordon Menzies made as series of radio announcements. In 1943 that dialogue was published as a book which he titled, The Forgotten People.

Essentially, the forgotten people were the middle class of Australia.

Today, 58 per cent of the population of Australia are classified as middle-income class.

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