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Originally Posted by chinamonty
Yeah well there is some food for thought in this thread. remember that America doesn't remember that Australia was the world home of motion pictures in the 30's. Even the English admitted that. History can be very sellective when it is written. Articles like this serve to keep the facts on record - your thoughts on Larry ( I think he was Sir Lawrence! but got called Larry) Hartnett re Nissan are spot on to my recollections
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One Hartnett-Nissan recollection you & I may share is that notorious 'doctored' close-up photo of him (no doubt at the behest of GM) which was widely publicised to turn public sentiment against Hartnett and thwart his then-attempt to intro Nissan into AU manufacturing - not merely assembly. Despicably, his eye area was airbrushed so as to give him an asian appearance, with all the racist postwar overtones that entailed at the time. Nissan realised it wasn't welcome and took its investment money and goodwill elsewhere
Before my time but Hartnett's continued quest for a genuinely all-Oz car (the advanced Lloyd Hartnett & related Hartnett car) was illegally sabotaged by the then conservative Govt of Prime Minister RM Menzies - undoubtably at the behest of GM-H
Despite his contribution, GM-H's blackballing and erasure of Hartnett's legacy continued almost to his death, and official recognition or even public mention of him by Holden was literally forbidden until recent memory
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The Australian Labor Party is the oldest surviving labor party in the world. (1891)
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And the world's 1st elected Labor Government (Queensland 1899)
probably prudent here not to use the term Socialist 