Tuesday, October 12, 2021

chogm cameras

Who recalls the controversy that attended the announcement in late 1981 that (a) there would be CCTV cameras installed around the streets of Melbourne for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and that (b) the cameras were going to stay after CHOGM was over? Well, me for one. Forty years ago. 

Age 12 October 1981 


 Age 17 November 1981

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