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- ∗ This article is based on research enabled by grants from the Australian Research Council (1992) and the Telecom Fund for Social and Policy Research in Telecommunications (1992 and 1993). I would like to thank Gillian Stacey, for her extensive research assistance; Rod Home, for insights shared while collaborating on a complementary project (on the federalising of meteorology); and Stephen Alomes, Denis Cryle, Ken Inglis, Glen Lewis and John Rickard, as well as participants in a work‐in‐progress seminar in the History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, Canberra, in October 1992, for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article.
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