Fair Share; QE42 by Judith Brett literary Sometime this century

Sometime this century

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Fair Share; QE42 by Judith Brett literary Sometime this centuryOnce the country believed itself to be the true face of Australia: sunburnt men and capable women raising crops and children, enduring isolation and a fickle environment, carrying the nation on their sturdy backs. For almost 200 years after white settlement began, city Australia needed the country: to feed it, to earn its export income, to fill the empty land, to provide it with distinctive images of the nation being built in the great south land. But