My
grandfather was part of the Great Generation. Toughened by wars and depression
they were patriotic nation builders.
Their
monuments are long-term productive assets like the Mount Isa and Broken Hill
mines, smelters and refineries, the Wollongong Steelworks, the Sydney Harbour
Bridge, the transcontinental railway, the overland telegraph line, the Yallourn
coal mines and Power stations, the Renison and Mt Lyell mines and railways, the
Kalgoorlie Goldfields, the Weipa and Gladstone bauxite industries, Pilbara
Iron, the Perth-Kalgoorlie pipeline, the Kidman Cattle Empire, the world’s
biggest merino flock, QANTAS, the Holden car, the Sunshine Harvester and a
network of roads, railways, towns, power lines, ports and airports.
