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Newcastle Herald letters to the editor, October 21, 2020: On the removal of rail from the city and visiting "the bush"

October 21 2020 - 7:30am
NOT ENOUGH: Reader Kevin Doherty says that rural and regional Australia wants to be more than "blacksmith shops that operated in the early 1900s and quaint streets".
NOT ENOUGH: Reader Kevin Doherty says that rural and regional Australia wants to be more than "blacksmith shops that operated in the early 1900s and quaint streets".

OVER recent weeks, we have seen a massive campaign promoting "the bush" and the need to visit our own backyard, and it is all very welcome. However, country towns really don't want to be known for blacksmith shops that operated in the early 1900s and quaint streets with rows of old wooden buildings where almost no one lives.

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