>I used to work on Vestey's freezer ships. The Vestey's should be more
>infamous than they are; they keep themselves - and their money - to
>themselves. I'm afraid Fray Bentos never recovered it's reputation for
>me, and I used to wolf down FB corned beef, meat pies and things in
>the 70s. It's almost as bad as the way tuna is treated after it's
>caught.
>Roger
Which now leads to a moment where two threads meet (meat? Oooh)
Two of Australia's great songwriters, Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody,
co-wrote a song (From Little Things Big Things Grow) about the Wave Hill
walkoff of 1966, where Gurindji stockmen walked off a cattle station to
protest their appalling treatment by the owner. There's a great line
about the owner:
"Vestey was fat, with money and muscle
Beef was his business and broad was his door."
Paul Kelly's lyrics are studied as poetry in Victoria. His song "From St
Kilda to Kings Cross" somehow incorporates Bergsonian metaphysics into a
bus trip ("and all around me felt like all inside me, and my body left
me"), and still has the killer line at the end:
"I'd give you all of Sydney Harbour, all that land and all that water,
For that one sweet promenade."
caleb
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