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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