Maitland is blitzing the coffee shop tourism index

By John Rozentals
July 28 2019 - 8:30am
Coffee shop index: Bob Dennerley has a quaint way of measuring tourist interest.
Coffee shop index: Bob Dennerley has a quaint way of measuring tourist interest.

I knew, of course, that the NSW Hunter Valley centre of Maitland had been a scene of the coal strike of 1949 and hence a focal point of one of Australia's formative political events - the sending in of the Army by a popular Labor Prime Minister, Ben Chifley, to break an industrial dispute.

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