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"Jean Shrimpton's mini, with no stockings or hat...conscripting young men not old enough to vote"

"Jean Shrimpton's mini, with no stockings or hat...conscripting young men not old enough to vote"

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Old Treasury Building Director and Historian Margaret Anderson speaks with the Radio Show about two current free exhibitions, currently showing at 20 Spring Street, Making Modern Melbourne and Swinging Sixties. From the beginning of a new century, where anything seemed possible to Gallipoli, the Depression, world wars, a long boom, Australia's first "TV War" from Vietnam, the old-age pension, a new focus on youth, changing attitudes to authority, the housing commission, The Beatles, Normie Rowe, The Easybeats, The Seekers concert at the Myer Music Bowl, Jean Shrimpton's self-styled mini, conscripting young men not old enough to vote and man on the moon.

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