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Originally Posted by Sandy G
Yeah, well, I guess the question should be why was TV so late in coming to Oz in the 1st place ? I can see 1956 in some 3rd world shithole, or Lower Albania, but Australia suffered from neither of these afflictions. You guys were & are, a large, modern prosperous nation, a member of the Western alliance & the British Commonwealth. Just doesn't make sense...
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Maybe it was a culture thing? I can remember when I was little, in the 70s, a very negative sentiment among the stuffy society crowd regarding TV. Some people thought that TV would bring the country to ruin, and to have a TV set installed in your livingroom was on an etiquette par with farting in church. If you had one, it was to be hidden or disguised so that dignified guests would be unaware you had one. (hence all those sets with doors, and ones that looked like coffee tables, etc)... Or better yet, the TV was put in a spare room in the back of the house. Times sure changed! Now they say you're nobody unless you have a 60" HDTV flat screen in the livingroom; to blast away disruptively at max volume when you have guests trying to visit.
After all, I have yet to meet a rude Australian
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Charles