Cleaners and Journalists decimated.

Herb found this in Midland from 1982, predicting unemployment for journalists, cleaners and other such bottom feeders. If only. Seen in Midland’s Simply Secondhand.

About AHC McDonald

Comedian, artist, photographer and critic. From 2007 to 2017 ran the culture and satire site The Worst of Perth
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18 Responses to Cleaners and Journalists decimated.

  1. rottobloggo says:

    Superb.
    Someone was thinking of the journalists.

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  2. billoslatter says:

    Kiddies need a backgrounder. This was Year 7 of the long rein of Mal “Life wasn’t meant to be easy” Fraser, usurper to the throne In 1982 there was a recession, sought of like what is happening to Greece now.. Back in those or the day, dependin on your age, tobacco played the role the mining industry plays today , that is a totally reactionary force in politics.

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  3. Silly really. It would have created work for journalists – writing stories about all the bloody dole bludgers.

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  4. Russell Woolf's Lovechild says:

    I’d take up smoking if I thought Teh Worst would die before I did.

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    • RubyRuby says:

      Makes sense, in a way.

      Who other than tobacco companies would bother advertising in print newspapers now, given the chance?

      Dying institutions flocking together?

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  5. PeteF says:

    Doesn’t the Wets want the press standards council to lengthen the dole queue?

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  6. dudecloverdale says:

    lOW DOWN TOBACCO COMPANIES TRYING TO KEEP SELLING CIGGIES !

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  7. The Legend 101 says:

    Less Companies=LESS SMOKERS!

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