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Suburban dreams and local lingo

Black and white photograph of a loquat tree with fruit in the foreground and a gate in the background

Writing about my great grandfather’s purchase of his property, Ikerrin, had me thinking about the origins of the common phrase, the ‘Great Australian Dream’. I wanted to know if it stemmed from the post war period in the 1950s, or was an earlier concept.

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