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Sunday, August 7, 2022

The Land Before Avocado

 

Judith Durham died last Friday, aged 79. She was "The Seekers" lead singer with the voice of an angel when I had just arrived in what was then an Australia that no one would recognise today.

 

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It's the Australia that Richard Glover describes in his book "The Land Before Avocado", written from his teenage perspective when growing up in Canberra in the late sixties/early seventies, coinciding exactly with my first impression of Australia during my first two years in Canberra.

It's a hugely entertaining romp down memory lane, and a great intergenerational conversation starter. The author, Richard Glover, also makes a weekly appearance on ABC Radio's "Thank God It's Friday!"

Thank God it's Friday!


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