PHOTO GALLERY: Obsolete occupationsRemember the days of lift operators and copy boys? Well, then you’re obviously fairly old, because they’re extinct professions these days. But NPR recalls the days of lamplighters and milkmen.
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Canberra’s shallow gene pool no mirror to the nation
Seventy per cent of Labor’s front bench are – allegedly – former union officials? Well, Parliament as a whole cannot be said to mirror the Australian population. That’s what the Parliamentary Library found in a research note last year, writes Christian Kerr.
