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Building and selling the snowy.(Snowy Mountains Authority)(Viewpoint essay)
ON HEARING that the Snowy was up for sale my thoughts went back half a century to those days of enthusiasm and purpose when I was young and Sir William Hudson was leading the Snowy Mountains Authority in a modern crusade to carve an engineering wonder out of Australia's highest mountains, his troops driven by their conviction that they were making Australia a better place.
I arrived in Cabramurra in January 1957 to start a two-year attachment to the Snowy Mountains Authority. I was an army engineer officer who'd just spent the previous year and more away from home at the Maralinga A-Bomb tests. What a joy it was when my wife Beverley and our two-year-old son Tom ...
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