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Some of us didn't have a choice.

I just got back from the shop with my dad, he was born in 1935 .. neither of us struggled to survive the 1950s.

It's dropped from a standard 40 hour work week to a 38 hour week for indexing a living wage, but things are more or less still as they were in 1907 (inflation adjusted) albeit with greater choice of consumerables.

https://www.fwc.gov.au/about-us/history/waltzing-matilda-and...




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